banquet

I’d still love to invite her and Nolan and even Oates to a banquet of wine and roasted fowl and have a blast agreeing to disagree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

And he is angry at allegations that a Nazi salute was seen at one banquet.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

At the Colmar banquet, held in a vast hangar-like space on the edge of town, such accusations are dismissed out of hand.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

The questions she asked me at Sophia's birthday banquet compete with her latest challenge: Can you do this?

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

From there they started staging events to raise money for heritage projects – and success in that led to the banquets.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Embraced across China since the 1970s, these tunes are widely performed at both casual gatherings and high-profile state banquets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

When US President Donald Trump visited Xi last week he was met with an extravaganza of banquets with gold tableware and a visit to an ancient temple.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Many younger Chinese associate red wine with business deals and official banquets, hurting its cool factor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

They took turns hosting nightly banquets, and the object was to top the effort of the night before.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

He met with Lao president Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would “mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos”.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2016

Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he left Persia he took an alleged $200,000,000 worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

They banqueted on the bulbs as fast as the gardeners could plant them.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“The extravagant gifting and banqueting and entertaining that fueled one big sector of imported wine has evaporated,” said Ian Ford, founding partner of Nimbility, an Asia-based beverage consulting firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

But the Commons catering department, which oversees 27 bars, restaurants and cafes, as well as banqueting services, was subsidised by taxpayers in 2022/23 to the tune of £6.4m, according to the annual accounts.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

As photos on the academy website show, this was the last of the banqueting Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

Today, the old banqueting hall no longer contains a table and that spacious room, with its high and magnificent ceiling, serves Mr Farraday well as a sort of gallery.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro