table manners
Example Sentences
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Ulf was reacting to being reprimanded for his table manners but he could have been talking to the writers’ room.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024
I think she missed her calling as an actor, but she did help manifest a magical world of pretend for my nieces, all while instilling table manners and providing a history lesson or two.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2022
In the two-minute video, Paddington guzzles tea in front of the queen, before offering a spare marmalade sandwich to make up for his poor table manners.
From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2022
Through her lessons on table manners and etiquette, Ms. Allen “became the Emily Post of Halsted Street,” as Tribune theater critic Chris Jones wrote in 2015, reviewing the premiere of “Charm” at Steppenwolf in Chicago.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022
Eating with the Sleets and Lefty Lewis was really hard to do, not because they had bad table manners or nothing, but because they talked through the whole breakfast.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
