How to Use card table in a Sentence

card table

noun
  • The four friends sat at the card table, dealing the tiles.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Napier picked up the catchphrase around the card table as a kid.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • There is no better way to end a long day of fun in sun than at a card table.
    Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
  • Travis Hicks, 33, spread burned CDs out across two card tables to sell to store customers.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The card table was set up in a living room that opened on to the garden through a large bay window.
    Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Only if Corey Seager can’t get a seat at the card table.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Momma kept a glass vase on the card table in the kitchen, which mostly stayed empty.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Some of the women gathered around the card table had known each other for decades.
    Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022
  • The clients invited him to plop down at a card table in an empty field.
    Matthew Millman, House Beautiful, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The space heater stood on a card table along with a stockpot and second-string flatware.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Then there are others who love cards and a card table is needed.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 May 2021
  • Plopping down a beach chair and card table is no longer cutting it.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Present them with candles for the big blow-out, then set them on a card table for people to devour.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Pitch a small tent in the backyard or on your deck, or drape a sheet over a picnic table or card table.
    Donna Erickson, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
  • Theo’s attention went to a rickety card table, which held juice and cookies for the end of class.
    Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • As a child, she wasn’t allowed into the kitchen, where a wood-burning stove spat flames and ash under a wok the size of a card table.
    Tejal Rao, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Rounding it all off is the Games Room in the attic, complete with a card table and a turret ceiling.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2022
  • France took a beating at the card table from pitcher Matt Gage as the teams waited out more than a two-hour delay at the start.
    Andrew Seligman, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • Two men set up a card table to play dominoes, one with a surgical mask around his neck.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • With a card table, a few chairs, some cardboard file cabinets, and one client—Nike.
    oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The occupants set up places in the home for dice games, dominos and card tables, along with two bars, one upstairs and one in the basement.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Constance sets up the card table in the middle of the living room, the folding one from the garage still sticky with the spills from Sally’s stand the weekend before.
    Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Chairs are lined atop a sandbar in the middle of the Kapamba, a card table serves as a makeshift bar, and popcorn explodes from a pan on the fire.
    Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The kennel club would face high odds in trying to bring in any other forms of gambling, such as card tables and slot machines.
    Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The stage was bare as the show began, with the exception of the singer, barefoot and dressed in a gray suit, sitting at a card table with a mock human brain on top of it.
    Erik Ernst, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
  • Two older men sit on opposite sides of a card table next door and wave hello.
    Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
  • Ten people sat in folding chairs at a makeshift card table, dining on Ahearn’s stew and homemade bread.
    Alissa Hessler, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
  • Above a card table, a single lamp casts smoky, jaundiced yellows.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • Opponents have set up card tables in the lobbies at Seward Park, next to posters that outline the benefits of the deal.
    Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, 10 June 2018
  • This folding card table thingy is a $1.7 billion solution.
    Kyle Whitmire | , al, 15 Mar. 2023

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