How to use "tables" in a sentence

But she was tall now, and chairs, tables and people fell here, there and everywhere.

It blew the food all over us - me, and all the men who were sitting at the tables.

The drinkers at the other tables paused, glasses half-way to their lips, and stared with disbelief.

It is a large room with oak tables, a dark marble counter and expensive leather sofas

"What do you think?" Robin asks, and he tells him to sit at one of the tables.

Gerry smiles, sits down at one of the small, wooden tables and places his bag carefully next to his feet

He looks at the food on the small tables in front of the cafes and bars.

The tables are covered in white, and the lights are low and atmospheric

Other people were already there, sitting around circular tables.

Going to and from the showroom, the crowd had to pass all the craps tables and blackjack tables and roulette wheels and glittering ranks of slot machines, and that was where the profit was made

On the wider levels, long dinner tables, covered with white linen, were set at right angles to the stage

Although no second show was scheduled this evening, as would be the case every night henceforth, busboys and waitresses were busily clearing tables, resetting them with fresh linen and silverware for the following night's eight o'clock performance.

The sets and props had been moved from the main floor of the stage, and eight folding tables had been set up

The tables were draped with white cloths and burdened with food: five hot hors d'oeuvres, lobster salad, crab salad, pasta salad, filet mignon, chicken breasts in tarragon sauce, roasted potatoes, cakes, pies, tarts, fresh fruits, berries, and cheeses

Hotel management personnel, showgirls, dancers, magicians, crewmen, and musicians crowded around the tables, sampling the offerings while Phillippe Chevalier, the hotel's executive chef, personally watched over the affair

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

At the craps tables, the crowds, primarily men, were more boisterous than the blackjack aficionados; they screamed, howled, cheered, groaned, encouraged the shooter, and prayed loudly to the dice

On the right, beyond the craps tables, halfway down the long room, elevated from the main floor, the white-marble and brass baccarat pit catered to a more affluent and sedate group of gamblers; at baccarat, the pit boss, the floor man, and the dealers wore tuxedos

He was dealing blackjack at one of the first tables

When Tina squeezed into the narrow gap between the tables and caught Michael's attention, his reaction was far different from what she had expected

Although no one was touching the jukebox, the volume increased, and the two words boomed through the diner, thundered, vibrated in the windows, and rattled silverware on the tables.

During their periodic breaks from the gaming tables, nursing stiff necks and sore shoulders and leaden arms, the weary dealers retired to a combination lounge and locker room at the bottom - and to the right - of the escalator

A group had gone down a while ago and would be returning for their last stand at the tables before a whole new staff came on duty with the shift change

A young sailor apparently had a run going at one of the craps tables, and a crowd of excited gamblers urged him to roll an eight and make his point.

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

A curly-haired man with a bushy mustache sat at one of the tables