How to Use tableau in a Sentence

tableau

noun
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  • The houses are grouped together in a charming tableau.
  • And that was the character of the tableau on the stage.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • In 2004, this bridge was the site of a gruesome tableau.
    — John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The number of soldiers in the tableau was reduced from 38 to 19.
    — Bart Barnes, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This calming tableau is the break your eyes need from screen time.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The props are used to create tableaux in her subjects’ homes.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 10 June 2017
  • The streets of Kyiv once again were a tableau of destruction not seen since the early days of the war.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The idea was to transform the group into a seamless bird tableau.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The rest of us are back here in Chicago, a tableau of maroon and gold the city hasn’t seen in more than 50 years.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The tableau might just contain members of the next big set of TV anchors, too.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Each piece is, in its way, a tableau come to fluid life, with drama to spare.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • As the tableau kicked into a rollicking gear, so too did the maskers.
    — The Masked Observer, al, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But here, the tableau vanishes as fast as the dancers found their unity.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The sky color-washed in pastels as dusk creeps over the San Gabriels, the tableau is a plein air landscape come to life.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Any hint of fantasy in the tableau dissolved in the next instant.
    — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The bartender and a man sitting alone observed this tableau.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 3 May 2018
  • Here, in one tableau, all ages and stages can be found thriving 20 years after the Cedar fire passed through.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Non-parading groups will just have a ball, a tableau or an opening skit.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The photos are a fascinating tableau of John Wayne’s life on the sea.
    — Yohana Desta, Vanities, 16 June 2017
  • To the uninitiated, the tableau at the checkpoint looks out of control.
    — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The tableau is assembled on a slice of raw log, more bark than planed surface.
    — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The scene isn’t a real sculpture at all but rather a girl dressed in gold from head to toe, standing in tableaux.
    — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • James Nachtwey’s photograph from Bucha, Ukraine, is a wartime tableau cluttered with the stuff of life.
    — The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The whole tableau was like a scene from Blade Runner on Ambien.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2016
  • With his frilly tableau, Favela backs up the question of identity.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 4 Mar. 2017
  • In each level, the player confronts one of the crime scenes, unearthing clues in its frozen tableau.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even the sea gulls, whose cawing and mewling were so much a part of the commotion of the Bosporus, fell in line with this solemn tableau.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • History will not forget the tableau at the White House as Biden walked to the lectern flanked by two Black women.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
  • On the Who’s Next side, the team has worked to create different tableaus within the expansive space.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Just look at the tableau of hot sauces featured on the celebrity interview show Hot Ones, with the hottest exceeding 2 million Scoville heat units.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024

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