Example sentences for: tableau

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

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

  • 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.

  • A cowboy swings his lariat before a rearing white horse and, for a second, you're caught by the power and careful balance of the tableau.

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

  • 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.


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