Example sentences for: tableau

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

  • The physical tableau is striking: Netanyahu and Clinton, both "tall and hale" (thanks, NYT ), beside the ailing Arafat in his inevitable headdress and frail, bald King Hussein of Jordan.

  • Nor is the vividness of this tableau entirely diminished when one notes that, as here used, excrement is a synonym for hair .

  • 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.

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

  • Hannah Höch said she discovered its possibilities when she saw a kitsch tableau of German military glory; the idealized soldier had her landlord's face pasted on.


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