Example sentences for: banquet

How can you use “banquet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the rabbi drops by for dinner on the night of the big pork and lobster banquet, you change the menu--not because there's anything discreditable about eating sea and sty, but as a matter of tact.

  • "There is still a world of difference between speaking to a political forum in Washington and at an Asian banquet where you are the guest," scolded an SCMP editorial, adding that Gore's criticism of the Malaysian government for imprisoning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has probably "sharpened the divide" between Asian countries and the United States.

  • When she was not included at an important wedding banquet, she threw into the hall a golden apple marked "For the Fairest."

  • Each member would organize a fortnightly banquet of game and fish he had caught himself.

  • The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)


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