How to Use high table in a Sentence

high table

noun
  • The happiness, the high table, the low table, the big house, the fields, the slaves, the jook joints, the fish fries.
    Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Also, keep food out of reach, like on a counter or high table.
    Amy Jamieson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The street level, home to the open kitchen and set off with high tables and a bar, is meant to be casual.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Grab a high table on the terrace around sunset to watch the sky change colors.
    Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
  • People sit at low tables against the window or stand at high tables by the kitchen.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • One zone will be geared toward fast diners, and will include high tables and barstools.
    Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 11 Feb. 2016
  • Nissley, an architect, spent $45 on a 4-foot high table-top tree at a lot near her home.
    Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY, 20 May 2020
  • Karen and Bagel receive guests inside a plastic dome, where Bagel is curled up on a blue blanket atop a high table.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • That drew a laugh from the Real Madrid winger but Brazil’s press officer was not as amused, grabbing the cat with two hands and flinging it off the 4-foot-high table as reporters gasped.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Curiously, because people have been waiting for something to fall off the high table of rock and roll, some crumbs!
    Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This bistro set is perfect for entertaining, with four bar-height swivel chairs and a high table topped with smoky gray tempered glass.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The stage is severe, a pair of benches and a high table, finished in concrete to resemble a memorial or maybe a very severe park.
    Ben Waterhouse | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The fabric and the zippers are substantial and luxurious, and the bag easily held up for multiple bat whacks and drops from a high table.
    Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Customers sit outside, perched on tiny stools around knee-high tables, intensely focused on backgammon boards.
    Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Anne Cortez, 57, founder of the consulting firm Federal Strategies, stood near a high table covered with materials about her company — and tiny Dove brand chocolate hearts wrapped in foil.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • India should have a place at any symbolic high table, for example, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • From having once been something that was an afterthought, technology has raced to occupy a prominent seat at the corporate high table.
    Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier sits at a high table.
    Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Fifty employees sat hunched over high tables covered in white cloth, furiously making final adjustments.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023

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