tableau

Example Sentences

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News crews, Venezuelan officials and nearby residents were drawn to a remarkable scene that offered a glimmer of hope amid the country’s otherwise dystopian tableau.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2026

Cather’s generous pioneer tableau represented, to borrow her words, “the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

This is the dismal tableau today in Venezuela’s Maracaibo Basin, which, for much of the last century, was one of the globe’s leading sources of petroleum.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr