BANQUET in a Sentence

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On the day appointed for the banquet, a grocer's van drove up from Willingdon and delivered a large wooden crate at the farmhouse.

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 Meanings and Examples of BANQUET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
banquet
 n.  feast, entertainment of eating and drinking
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  And in a few days' time the pigs intended to hold a memorial banquet in Boxer's honour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  On the day appointed for the banquet, a grocer's van drove up from Willingdon and delivered a large wooden crate at the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  She looked lit up, as if for a banquet, with the sun pouring over her.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
4  A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  We therefore decline with thanks your Highness's courteous invitation to the banquet.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Our banquet also shall go forward to-night as we proposed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The banquet was crowned with the richest wines, both foreign and domestic.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  He went accordingly to the banquet, of which we have already mentioned the principal events.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  The noble Saxon had returned from the banquet, as we have seen, in no very placid humour, and wanted but a pretext for wreaking his anger upon some one.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Like Damocles at his celebrated banquet, Rebecca perpetually beheld, amid that gorgeous display, the sword which was suspended over the heads of her people by a single hair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  Men of their precarious course of life change readily from the banquet to the battle; and, to Richard, the exchange seemed but a succession of pleasure.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  But the palace within is decked with splendour of royal state, and a banquet made ready amid the halls.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
14  Soon as the noise of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls and enwreathe the wine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
15  Then we build seats on the winding shore and banquet on the dainty food.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
Example Sentence:
1  The president gave the Prince and his attendants a farewell banquet.
2  He was famous for his felicitous remarks and was called upon to serve as master-of-ceremonies at many a banquet.
3  My hands are sore after I pare hundreds of potatoes for the banquet.
4  While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded the banquet.
5  At the banquet all the foreign guests wore evening dress.
6  In banquet halls folding partitions are very popular.
7  This restaurant often caters for large banquets.
8  Medieval banquets are held in the castle once a month.