Example sentences for: tableau

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

  • Museums that will appeal to children are the Fry Model Railway Museum at Malahide Castle Estate (see page 75), while the National Wax Museum (Granby Row, Dublin 1; Tel. 872 6340) has a special “Children’s World” tableau depicting well-known fairy-tale characters and a Hall of the Megastars devoted to pop musicians.

  • As in Career Girls , scenes are reduced to a single shot, a single tableau, but LaBute's compositions are rigid and airless: they call attention to their own wit, and to the fact that the characters' destinies are fixed.

  • “Chéri, can't we go to the premiere of that finde-siècle tableau vivant about clandestine intrigue in a commune?”

  • Picasso can virtually copy a Matisse tableau without producing anything like the same effect.

  • The Washington Post reported that Shepard was "strung up on a fence to die in a grotesque tableau."


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