buffetin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
buffet as in: buffeted by
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The small boar was buffeted by the powerful waves.
buffeted = hit repeatedly
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- Winds buffeted the tent.
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Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
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buffeted = hit
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In high seas, the runners were buffeted about, all staggering in one direction, then in the other.
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buffeted = bounced
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The evening concluded with a buffet supper for the Pleiades and their guests at the Round Room, lavishly hosted by Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior.
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buffet = a self-serve meal
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Unbelievable, Edgar thought, as the wind buffeted them.
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buffeted = hit repeatedly
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When he sets her down, she takes him by the hand and over to the buffet table, where I'm busying myself rearranging the cookie plate.
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buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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The sea ... buffeted the raft.
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buffeted = bounced
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The owl was so small, in fact, that it kept tumbling over in the air, buffeted this way and that in the train's slipstream.
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buffeted = caused to bounce
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A buffet of wind made him stagger and he saw that he was out in the open, on rock, under a brassy sky.
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buffet = push
- Around us the room was dark and still, the windowpanes rattling gently as they were buffeted by the wind and rain.† (source)
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- She was being buffeted by the air currents but grinned and flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign.† (source)
- Someone buffeted her aside.† (source)
- The cold wind buffeted against the door, and the trees outside the back window shook with such force that I could hear it from our room, and I sat in my bed and thought of the Colonel out there somewhere, his head down, his teeth clenched, walking into the wind.† (source)
- A small gust buffeted me just as we were coming in that first time.† (source)
- Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.† (source)
- Turbulence buffeted him, snatching the breath out of his mouth.† (source)
- Outside the window there was nothing to be seen but a buffeting curtain of white.† (source)
- Her kite buffeted the air with its massive wings.† (source)
- Hurricane winds buffeted the ship.† (source)
- Buffeting gusts of wind, which had initially slowed him, now shortened the time it took to traverse the mini glacier that was thickening beneath his feet.† (source)
- Although the air, now stinking from the burning tree, was still, Dee watched as an invisible, unfelt breeze whipped the Morrigan's cloak about her shoulders and buffeted the huge Bastet, making her tilt her head and lean forward into the wind.† (source)
- The momentum of the aircraft keeps you in place; you don't even feel any wind buffeting.† (source)
- Immediately these concerns began buffeting Wall Street.† (source)
- She felt the buffeting of dust-blanketed wind.† (source)
- People who grow up poor, fatherless, and buffeted by racism don't have the same commitment to social norms as those from healthy middle-class homes.† (source)
- When Chico and I reached the corner, Lencho was clapping these hard, buffeting claps, like he was a thousand times relieved to see us.† (source)
- That's what she looks like, actually—like a snowflake being buffeted around in the wind, twisting and turning on currents of air.† (source)
- Now, however, she moves down an avenue gently buffeted by the familiar and therefore loved images.† (source)
- There were no trays here and no serve-yourself buffets.† (source)
- I didn't feel the buffeting so much as before.† (source)
- In the shaking of the truck and the buffeting of dust and wind, I can only breathe in short shallow gasps.† (source)
- Outside the sky was clear, but icy gusts of wind were buffeting our barracks every few minutes, sending fresh dust puffs up through the floorboards.† (source)
- A flurry of small brown birds erupted from the side of the road and were buffeted away on the wind.† (source)
- Sand buffets my face, biting at my skin before solidifying into another creature.† (source)
- My child, buffeted on all sides, clutched at my hand fearfully as we entered a vast chamber, its walls adorned with mirrors.† (source)
- The matronly goose buffeted Max forward with her powerful wing and whistled for the goslings to fall in line.† (source)
- He could feel the tensed, straddling inside of her buffeting thighs and knees squeezing and churning around one of his legs.† (source)
- Fogarty himself was buffeted by the concussions of the big shells coming in and going out, like gusts of a powerful wind.† (source)
- I surveyed the long stainless-steel buffets.† (source)
- Noisy blasts of air from his nostrils buffeted his face.† (source)
- "Struggle if you must," said he, "but kindly remember that I'm hiding down here in this crate and I don't want to be stepped on, or kicked in the face, or pummeled, or crushed in any way, or squashed, or buffeted about, or bruised, or lacerated, or scarred, or billed.† (source)
- The economy class section of Air France's Caravelle to Zurich was filled to capacity, the narrow seats made more uncomfortable by the turbulence that buffeted the plane.† (source)
- Yet he's far away from me in a place where he's buffeted by emotions deep and unkind.† (source)
- It's happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green prairie farmland and buffeting wind coming together.† (source)
- No more dazzling breakfast buffets.† (source)
- The water churns and we are buffeted.† (source)
- Looking down a long boulevard, he saw trees tossing snow skyward as they were buffeted by the wind.† (source)
- The cars were steadily whizzing by me on the narrow two-way of Route 9, the muffled slingshot of their passing buffeted by the safety glass.† (source)
- Merrick was skinny and ungainly, with the Whitshanks' definite jaw that looked better on the men than on the women, and that summer she was wearing her hair in a dramatic new style, flaring out on the left side but pressed flat to her skull on the right, so that it looked as if she were perpetually being buffeted by a strong wind.† (source)
- Iron Mountain was to the west, and at times it either buffeted the winds or blasted us with them.† (source)
- I drove into a wind quartering in from my starboard bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of the gale I helped to make.† (source)
- A small crowd had gathered around and Sophie saw the librarian quiver as if he were being buffeted by savage winds.† (source)
- His toes were mashed, and he had been shoved, buffeted, butted in the ribs, and rammed in the groin.† (source)
- Then the winds buffeted him, the mighty winds that circle through Heaven.† (source)
- Now the struggling winds were like groans of pain and there were thudding noises as the winds buffeted the sea, sounds like clubs banging on backs, sometimes cracking bones, an ungodly racket.† (source)
- He was in a hurry: he had to visit two patients and get back to his hospital as soon as possible, and there he was, wasting precious time, staring out of the window at the slanting streaks of rain buffeted by the autumn wind like a cornfield in a storm.† (source)
- Her shoulders dropping, her hair flying, her skirt buffeted by the sudden strong wind, she stood there, thinking they all must see that with her entire self all she did was wait.† (source)
- Woodrow Wilson, for example, shortly before his death, buffeted by the Senate in his efforts on behalf of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, rejected the suggestion that he seek a seat in the Senate from New Jersey, stating: "Outside of the United States, the Senate does not amount to a damn.† (source)
- He capered around in his stall, his black wings buffeting the air.† (source)
- He felt buffeted, as if every-thing was about to be wrenched apart and whirled away.† (source)
- Its black wings spread in alarm, and the wind buffeted me back a step.† (source)
- Strong gusts of wind buffeted the train, and ghostly virga of ice followed it through the night.† (source)
- Eragon backed away, buffeted by the eddies from her wings, and returned to the horses.† (source)
- We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us.† (source)
- They staggered as a wall of air buffeted them.† (source)
- Buffeting Max's leg appreciatively with her wing, Hannah waddled back toward the forest.† (source)
- Hot, sweet breath buffeted Woref s face, and he jerked his eyes open.† (source)
- Max smiled as Hannah buffeted him playfully with her wing.† (source)
- One of the wings buffeted the sellsword in his face.† (source)
- Hostile winds buffeted us from side to side.† (source)
- With his free hand, Roran buffeted the creature's head and shoulders-which were as hard as iron.† (source)
- Saphira wobbled as turbulence buffeted them.† (source)
- Storm after storm buffeted the train and buried the landscape in snow.† (source)
- And she took off, the gusts from her wings buffeting them.† (source)
- Explosions, mists; buffeting winds followed by silences filled with tension.† (source)
- Rain and chilly winds buffeted the troops that day.† (source)
- The ship—and my stomach—are buffeted by waves even my magic cannot quell.† (source)
- He's just a lively horse," trainer Conway said weakly as he was buffeted around.† (source)
- The Rakasha then rushed about his head, urging him downward with buffets and stings.† (source)
- He wheeled around and strode blindly from the hospital wing into the teeming corridor where he stood, buffeted by the crowd, panic expanding inside him like poison gas so that his head swam and he could not think what to do...Ron and Hermione, said a voice in his head.† (source)
- The wintry night air was gushing through her shattered window, buffeting her body like an arctic wind.† (source)
- Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius.† (source)
- Harry thought he saw it drop by a fraction — But suddenly footsteps were thundering up the stairs and a second later Malfoy was buffeted out of the way as four people in black robes burst through the door on to the ram-parts.† (source)
- The wind buffeted the little cottage and the fire leapt and crackled, and Bill was soon opening another bottle of wine.† (source)
- From The Shadow Exploded (p. 131): While those going to the Ewen Spring Ball were gathering at the high school or just leaving pre-Prom buffets, Christine Hargensen and William Nolan had met in a room above a local town-limits tavern called The Cavalier.† (source)
- At 1:45 the next morning, May 11-around the same time Anatoli Boukreev was frantically searching the South Col for Sandy Pittman, Charlotte Fox, and Tim Madsen-two Japanese climbers, accompanied by three Sherpas, set out for the summit from the same high camp on the Northeast Ridge that the Ladakhis had used, despite the very high winds buffeting the peak.† (source)
- The wind tore through the square, letting out a sepulchral moan as it whistled through the columns and buffeted the walls.† (source)
- Near the southern tip of South America, where the wind sweeps the land like "the broom of God"—'Vaescoba de Dios, " as the locals say-I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre; buffeted by hundred-knot winds, plastered with frangible atmospheric time, it was once (though no longer) thought to be the world's hardest mountain.† (source)
- As the air currents buffeted her body, her clothes clung, accentuating her slender torso and small breasts.† (source)
- His sisters had been kind to him, and though the other girls would sometimes taunt him, cruel words were easier to shrug off than the blows and buffets he got from the other castle boys.† (source)
- And then a hot wind buffeted him and he heard the sound of leathern wings and the air was full of ash and cinders and a monstrous roar went echoing off the scorched and blackened bricks and he could hear his friends shouting wildly.† (source)
- The force of the impact pushed Thorn backward off the black-shrike-thorn-cave, and he flailed his wings, buffeting Saphira as both he and she fell toward the ground.† (source)
- Rhaegal and Viserion were fighting over a scrap of meat, buffeting each other with their wings as smoke hissed from their nostrils.† (source)
- He raced tentatively, and with the winds buffeting him through the homestretch, won by a modest margin over his stablemate Exhibit.† (source)
- Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.† (source)
- Down, down the balloon swept and spun toward the earth, curving away north as it was buffeted about by the icy gusts.† (source)
- For the first time in a year and a half I was grateful for the opportunity to hide behind the chador The cold wind buffeted me as I made my way to a pay telephone at a corner a safe distance away.† (source)
- They wanted her, needed her, the fire, the life, and Dany gasped and opened her arms to give herself to them ... But then black wings buffeted her round the head, and a scream of fury cut the indigo air, and suddenly the visions were gone, ripped away, and Dany's gasp turned to horror.† (source)
- Then I heard a little buffeting sound on the trees like a whole audience of people were tapping their fingers lightly on paper.† (source)
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buffet as in: all-you-can-eat buffet
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The hotel offers a free, buffet breakfast.
buffet = self-serve meal
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- There was a buffet of much variety at the wedding reception.
- The all-you-can-eat buffet, that American phenomenon, represented the only endurance exercise at which my family excelled. (source)
- A few weeks earlier, I had sat with Mom at a Chinese buffet as she tried in vain to shovel food in her mouth. (source)
- I would have a magnificent buffet. (source)
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Sometimes, at day's end, the cook at the buffet-style restaurant let Rasheed bring home a few leftovers-as long as he was discreet about it-
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buffet = self-serve
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"They're worth the price of the buffet by themselves!" my mom and I would chime in.
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buffet = self-serve meal
- Even the prospect of the dinner buffet was no longer enough to keep us in the nation's capital. (source)
- "Let's find out where they're having the dinner buffet," he said. (source)
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The last I checked, there was only an Arby's, a discount grocery store, and a Chinese buffet in what was once a Middletown center of commerce.
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buffet = self-serve restaurant
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I once saw a young couple's argument at the local Chinese buffet escalate into a symphony of curse words and insults.
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buffet = self-serve meal
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- My mother was convinced that the bears were lined up in the nearby bushes waiting for their chance at the all-you-can-eat Persian buffet. (source)
- It was then time for the $3.99 all-you-can-eat buffet, during which we unfortunately had to listen to my father's gambling stories. (source)
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buffet as in: placed on the buffet
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She placed coffee and drinks on the buffet in the dining room.
buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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He hurls the champagne glass against the wall, where it shatters, spraying fragments of crystal all over the buffet table.
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buffet = a type of table from which food can be served
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The judge pointed him to the serving buffet and apologized to her caller.
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buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
- To the left through the doorway stood a large walnut buffet in what must have been the diningroom. (source)
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- "He's doing good, huh?" said Nathan, as he met me by the buffet.† (source)
- The doctrine has become a buffet line.† (source)
- At one o'clock, the dancing came to an end, and a breakfast buffet was laid out.† (source)
- We all met for the breakfast buffet.† (source)
- Carrot bread and oatmeal might have been welcome at that buffet table.† (source)
- This is nothing," Annie assured Mae, as they shuffled down the forty-foot buffet.† (source)
- Yet the bar and the buffet tables were set out upon the lawn; the men took off their suit jackets and rolled up their sleeves and loosened their ties and sweated through their shirts—my grandmother particularly disapproved of the men for draping their jackets on the privet hedges, which gave the usually immaculate, dark-green border of the rose garden the appearance of being strewn with litter that had blown in from another part of town.† (source)
- Around us big men in overalls lined up for the $4.75 buffet breakfast.† (source)
- There are piles of food on the table, served buffet style, just like at the Kweilin feasts.† (source)
- But the children will be in them all right, something for the Wives to look at, downstairs, nibbling at the buffet and waiting for the Birth.† (source)
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- It was quite an undertaking, laying out blankets for the passengers, setting up the trestle tables for the buffet, then lugging out the plates and cutlery and napkins and food.† (source)
- For instance, if you looked at your elderly aunt Edith choking on a piece of steak from the all-you-can-eat buffet and you told yourself, Man, I sure hope she's not choking, you would waste several valuable lifesaving, Heimlich maneuver—performing seconds.† (source)
- No, but she works in a bar with a buffet.† (source)
- She and her boyfriend go out Saturday nights to a buffet dinner.† (source)
- He swatted the mosqui-toes that were forming a buffet line on his arm.† (source)
- We were going on vacation to Crater Lake and we stopped at a resort on an Indian reservation for the buffet lunch.† (source)
- She is busy setting up the buffet.† (source)
- The Consul helped himself to toasted fish, fruit, and orange juice at the buffet and then moved to the railing.† (source)
- Everyone, it seemed, was feeding him snacks off the buffet table.† (source)
- We got a big buffet coming up soon.† (source)
- She walked over to the buffet and cut a piece of pumpkin pie.† (source)
- She gives us a key and property map and tells us about the complimentary continental breakfast buffet.† (source)
- You know Mexican buffet?† (source)
- He appeared to be reaching for the candle, and before his arm rested on the buffet, his finger touched it so the hot wax extinguished the tiny bit that was left of the wick.† (source)
- On it, she was piling spinach salad from the buffet in front of them.† (source)
- The only party the Nielsens host is an annual open-house buffet lunch on New Year's Day for their vendors.† (source)
- They sidled up to the buffet.† (source)
- She said purpose and he felt the word buffet him, reinfecting him with terrible purpose.† (source)
- We fade in on George and Gracie leaving a posh dinner party where the buffet table groans with every possible delicacy.† (source)
- You can't gamble if you're under eighteen, but I've been there a handful of times to go to the buffet.† (source)
- The Lindsay buffet.† (source)
- There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart set out on the long buffet with seventy-one candles-one for good luck.† (source)
- He had opened the blinds, giving her this moment to savor, this glimpse of her life, contained within these brick walls, framed by the buffet she had refinished, the ficus tree she had not yet managed to kill off, the layers of glass and paint she'd washed so lovingly all these years.† (source)
- We went to a buffet.† (source)
- The guys hurried to surround the table—which looked tiny and in danger of being crushed by them—and devoured the buffet-sized pan of eggs Emily placed in their midst in record time.† (source)
- I was mulling over this as I stood by the buffet, spatula in hand, when a hand blurred across my vision.† (source)
- Ozzie and Prather had a bad buffet lunch on a busy concourse, not far from the lounge.† (source)
- For a buffet.† (source)
- Stevie Rae led me to the side of the room that had the typical cafeteria servers handing out food from behind buffet-style glass thingies.† (source)
- FOX FINISHED WEEDING HIS SECTION OF THE vegetable garden before hefting the spray his mother mixed up weekly to discourage the deer and rabbits from invading for an all-you-can-eat buffet.† (source)
- Possibly the best explanation why Cedric Jennings is in Brown's class of 1999 is that he managed to steer clear of the buffet table of adolescent experimentation, believingrightly, it turns out-that in his neighborhood most of those dishes were poisoned.† (source)
- They found their table and settled in for a spell, sipping champagne and nibbling on buffet tidbits.† (source)
- The food was spread along a much larger table, buffet style, in glistening abundance—chicken teriyaki, pickled vegetables, egg rolls, cucumber and abalone salad, the seaweed-wrapped rice balls called sushi, shrimp, prawns, fresh lobster, and finally, taking up what seemed like half the tablecloth, a great gleaming roast pig with a bright red apple in its mouth.† (source)
- Uncle Jack: ... Uncle Les: ... Uncle Bobby: Buffet?† (source)
- For dinner, because she was tired, we went to the buffet at the hotel.† (source)
- Suleman excused himself and returned to the buffet for seconds.† (source)
- The guys from Phoenix glanced back at the buffet table and wondered if they could get more cake before the ceremony wrapped up.† (source)
- Max glanced at an old photo of the McDaniels family propped on the buffet.† (source)
- It's like the buffet at Hotel del Coronado.† (source)
- Matthew's mom was blissfully absent from the buffet, so Vlad poured Meredith a cup of punch and grabbed a handful of cookies for them to share.† (source)
- The dessert buffet table was so yummy I wanted one of each, but resisted because of the great discipline Lew and I have.† (source)
- And there's no free breakfast buffet.† (source)
- All of the town's big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing down the buffet foods, drinking beer and whiskey and smoking black cigars.† (source)
- When the human buffet cleared out of the train, down Seabiscuit would go again.† (source)
- The inn's having a special buffet, everything on the house, and a meteorologist from the Leeward Islands Weather Control will speak for a few minutes on what happened last night.† (source)
- Fog rolled into the buffet where once the summer tourists had gone to escape the heat.† (source)
- It's a sunny afternoon, warm enough to set up the buffet on the deck.† (source)
- The Greatjon dealt Rickard Karstark a buffet with a mailed fist that sent the other lord to his knees.† (source)
- "Sounds to me like that's what she's been doing," my father said, got up and walked over to the buffet where he kept his scotch in a cut-glass decanter.† (source)
- MAYOR So the members of our Ladies' Aid have prepared a buffet lunch.† (source)
- And that was nothing compared with the clutter elsewhere in the house—the towers of faded books teetering on the desk in the sunroom, the rolled carpets in the dining room, the stemware tinkling on the buffet each time the little boys stampeded past.† (source)
- It is also true that even after arriving at the party we avoided the buffet and the punch bowl.† (source)
- There was only the glitter of the china closet, the heavy old buffet, the lamps and bric-a-brac of the dead Runians.† (source)
- I picked up my Dagwood from the buffet, but she wasn't done with me.† (source)
- The air smelled of early winter in town-of trampled maple leaves, melted snow, engine soot, and warm rye bread just out of the oven (it was baked in the basement of the station buffet).† (source)
- At 2:00 P.M., a buffet luncheon was served without interrupting the feast of reason.† (source)
- We filled our trays at a buffet line and were allowed to sit wherever we wished.† (source)
- I grabbed a pain au chocolat and a cup of tea from the buffet table and sat down.† (source)
- Annie opened a door to a beautiful room, some cross between a buffet and a museum and a trade show.† (source)
- Dan dropped the spoon, and it clattered against the edge of the buffet.† (source)
- The griffin crashed into a buffet table.† (source)
- He telephoned Lucille Wright, the cateress, and asked her to prepare a buffet of low-country food.† (source)
- After we checked in, the five of us ate a buffet lunch in the hotel restaurant.† (source)
- Judy eyes the buffet, bites into something that turns out to be a shrimp cutlet.† (source)
- There was a buffet of cold cuts and salads and cookies.† (source)
- Not with Cujo around, eyeballing his crotch like it was an appetizer at the Sunday buffet.† (source)
- We went to a little Italian place by our house, with checkered tablecloths and a pizza buffet.† (source)
- It has a buffet table and sleeping bags inside.† (source)
- What I really wanted to do was curl up in a ball under the buffet table and hide from everyone.† (source)
- Amos waved toward a buffet table piled high with food.† (source)
- Delivery guys move furniture, set up chairs, a buffet table.† (source)
- It'll be a buffet, and I'm going to sit at the tables like the rest of you.† (source)
- The band's all in there, along with a giant buffet serving a traditional English roast.† (source)
- I held up a little yellow box of cereal I'd taken from the buffet table.† (source)
- He was fond of the buffet at an Indian restaurant in midtown, but it closed.† (source)
- The townspeople stand around the picnic table, munching the buffet lunch.† (source)
- Suleman and Baig returned from the buffet with lavishly piled plates of mutton curry.† (source)
- On their Taliban salaries they couldn't afford the twenty-dollar buffet.† (source)
- But how do you scold your momma for digging deep into the first dessert buffet she ever saw.† (source)
- The buffet was usually fought to the death, and as distracted as I felt, I would've gotten impaled by a fondue fork before I filled my plate.† (source)
- The Demeter cabin had whipped up a whole buffet in the hotel kitchens—everything from pizza to pineapple ice cream.† (source)
- "Well —" he looked away — they'd just brought out a fresh bowl of caviar; he was already half turned toward the buffet—and then relented.† (source)
- detailed what action to take if you inadvertently consumed plastic fruit (this happened more often than you would suppose—some plastic fruit was extremely realistic looking); how to perform the Heimlich maneuver on your elderly aunt Edith if she choked on a stringy piece of steak at an all-you-can-eat buffet; what to do if you were wearing a striped shirt and a swarm of locusts descended (run: locusts eat stripes); and, of course, how to administer everyone's favorite lifesaving technique: CPR.† (source)
- In fact, I remember that after my mother's funeral, after the service and the burial and the buffet that Mary Livingstone and Elizabeth Ericson served at our house for the mourners, I followed Mrs. Ericson across the road, carrying some empty serving dishes, and after I put them beside the sink, I walked into the living room.† (source)
- To the left, the double doors to the dining room are folded back, and inside I can see the long table, covered with a white cloth and spread with a buffet: ham, cheese, oranges — they have oranges!† (source)
- His spasms lessened and he began to eat again, wheeling his way slowly along the endless, extravagant buffet and telling me what he wanted on his plate.† (source)
- She works in the galley of one of the big Russian ships, hauling vats of cooked fish stew out to the buffet line, ladling it out into bowls, shoving it across the counter at an unending line consisting of religious fanatics, religious fanatics, and more religious fanatics.† (source)
- The candles were a few, scattered on the small table and the carved buffet, and Lestat had his arm around one woman and was kissing her: She was very drunk and very beautiful, a great drugged doll of a woman with her careful coif falling slowly down on her bare shoulders and over her partially bared breasts.† (source)
- The weird thing was: a middle-aged couple was standing in the buffet line right behind the devil dog, patiently waiting their turn for the eggs.† (source)
- She found the buffet, and found it in shambles, a feast raided by animals or Vikings, and made her way to the nearest bar, which was out of Riesling and was now offering only some kind of vodka-and-energy drink concoction.† (source)
- In a matter of seconds, like one of those crazy expand-in-water sponge toys, the amulet grew into a full-size Egyptian reed boat, lying across the ruins of the buffet table.† (source)
- It was a hellhound-a black mastiff with its front paws up on the buffet line and its muzzle buried in the scrambled eggs.† (source)
- The hall monitors had moved the ice cream inside, and set it up on the buffet table so students could help themselves.† (source)
- Over a thousand tourists had traipsed through, peering into every nook and cranny and pausing to have a buffet lunch before leaving.† (source)
- "Urn —" throngs milling by the buffet, beds of cracked ice, gloved servers shucking oysters by the bucketful —"there."† (source)
- He heaped hash browns, eggs, and a few strips of bacon onto his plate and grabbed a bowl of cereal from the end of the buffet before heading to their usual spot, a circular table by the far windows.† (source)
- I eased down from the counter —as gently as I could, because my head hurt —and searched around until I found a drawer with sugar envelopes and packaged tortilla chips that Xandra had brought home from the buffet at the bar.† (source)
- We dropped from his claws onto the buffet table and found Bast whirling around with her knives in hand, slicing demons to sand and kicking magicians into the swimming pool, where our albino crocodile, Philip of Macedonia, was only too happy to entertain them.† (source)
- For the first hour or so, she stood quietly in the dining room while the guests served themselves from the buffet.† (source)
- Mae briefly entertained the notion of trying to get close enough to shake her hand, but the crowd around her was five deep, all night, so instead Mae ate from the buffet, some kind of shredded pork that had been made on campus, and waited for Annie.† (source)
- Everybody always says this painting is about reason and enlightenment, the dawn of scientific inquiry, all that, but to me it's creepy how polite and formal they are, milling around the slab like a buffet at a cocktail party.† (source)
- So instead we drove directly to the Forest Heights Country Club, where Emma went to the buffet, put two fried chicken legs on her plate, and sat down at the piano in the dining room.† (source)
- At last things began to clear out, but not much; people had started moving toward the coat check and the waiters were starting to remove the cake and the dessert dishes from the buffet when—trapped in conversation with a group of Kitsey's cousins — I glanced across the room for Pippa (as I'd been doing, compulsively, all night long, trying to catch sight of her red head, the only interesting or important thing in the room) — and, much to my surprise, espied her with Boris.† (source)
- The tour companies would send caterers to Joe's house at 11:45 A.M. with platters and tureens of food; the tour buses would pull up at noon; the tourists would walk through the house, eat a buffet lunch, and listen to Joe play a few songs on the piano.† (source)
- Along the other wall, a buffet table was laden with every kind of breakfast food imaginable (and a few kinds I had never imagined).† (source)
- By midafternoon, Emma had slipped in a Jimmy Buffet CD and the music was playing loud; they'd lifted anchor and were passing Cape Lookout as they headed back toward Harker's Island.† (source)
- Is it a buffet?† (source)
- regimen of their lunchtime love—the nooner, it was called, or the matinee—meeting in the secretaries' snug apartments, striking in their dimensional similarity to the cubicles the writers worked in, only decorated more touchingly and vulnerably, with posters of Madrid on the off-white walls, or prints of Marino Marini horses or Bernard Buffet lobsters, or in the larger apartments of secretaries with roommates, which complicated the schedule and made the writers yearn for an intimate glimpse of one of the roommates, barefoot in a partially open robe, perhaps, coming from the shower after a late night with a failed date, the apartments situated nearly always in the sunless hindquarter† (source)
- After the buffet supper the guests headed downstairs to the finished basement, where she and Mason had first danced together.† (source)
- Sure that it was Kristy, glaring, or Monica, staring, I turned my head and was surprised to see my mother, standing by the buffet, her eyes following me as I passed.† (source)
- The something-for-everybody kept the dance floor lively while those sitting one out could chat at one of the tables circling the room, sip drinks, or nibble from the light buffet set up along one of the side walls.† (source)
- So I decided: We're going to have a buffet, invite some friends over-the Murrays, and Cliff and Dodie Hope.† (source)
- He wanted to sit in the buffet and read the paper while he had tea and a cornetto, but the newspaper stand and the ticket office were closed.† (source)
- I was thinking of setting up the buffet line next to the windows, and we can leave an area open for dancing right in front of the fireplace.† (source)
- She was busy force-feeding cupcakes to any guest that came within a four-foot radius of the buffet, but not before asking them in a shrill voice if they were a good witch or a bad witch.† (source)
- That evening we went to a hotel downtown and paid a flat twenty bucks each for a Thanksgiving buffet, rows and rows of steam tables full of mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.† (source)
- And so while the others partook of the buffet, courtesy of an Officeapproved caterer in Tel Aviv, he spoke of his childhood in the valley—of the Arab raids from the hills of the West Bank, of the Israeli reprisals, of the Six-Day War, which took his father, of the Yom Kippur War, which took his belief that Israel was invulnerable.† (source)
- BUFFET LUNCH TO THE DEATH!† (source)
- Lunch was a huge build-your-own salad buffet, which included everything from tuna salad (eesh) to those weird mini-corns that are so confusing, and don't even taste like corn.† (source)
- Like the suburban white kids who could afford to party and experiment in their safe realms, similar privileges were extended to these mostly middle-class blacks, who now can cherry pick some raucous ingredients from the black urban buffet to fire the mix.† (source)
- A mega casino-style buffet: Salads'Oriental chicken' wilted spinach' ambrosia' three-bean' crab (at least that's what they call it)' potato (three kinds)' pasta (five kinds)' carrot ' raisin (nasty)' and, of course, green.† (source)
- The others went to examine the buffet.† (source)
- I didn't see any flamingo on the buffet table, which was fine by me, but there was just about everything else.† (source)
- The town, though visible on the hillside, was far away, and a sullen woman who manned the buffet alone was not interested in making tea or explaining why she had no cornetti.† (source)
- Approximately four hundred miles east of where Arthur Clutter then stood, two young men were sharing a booth in the Eagle Buffet, a Kansas City diner.† (source)
- Six or seven, starting right here," he said, meaning the Eagle Buffet, where everybody-the bartender and waiters-knew and liked him, and called him Pickles (in honor of his favorite food).† (source)
- Before heading over to graze at the buffet, Mortenson scooped up a few spoonfuls of Suleman's dessert for himself.† (source)
- But I noticed she had her eye on the dessert buffet, this dazzling array of sweets that was unlike anything she had ever seen.† (source)
- Around the buffet, where he ordinarily ate attended by five under-worked waiters who raced each other to refill his glass of mineral water, Mortenson saw that every table was taken.† (source)
- But explanations were in order-apologies, too-and over a bowl of chili at the Kansas City hash house that Dick liked best, the Eagle Buffet, Dick supplied them.† (source)
- At a pink-clothed table by the Nadia's bursting buffet, Gannon filled Mortenson in on the clowns, jugglers, and high-wire acts who'd recently arrived in town.† (source)
- Quite the contrary, for their pleasures were not his; he had no use for card games, golf, cocktails, or buffet suppers served at ten-or, indeed, for any pastime that he felt did not "accomplish something."† (source)
- And though Mortenson placed a large stack of CAI pamphlets prominently on the buffet table, at evening's end, he hadn't raised a cent from Lang for CAI.† (source)
- A mustachioed Pakistani waiter, looking humiliated under his massive sombrero, stopped at the table to ask if they were ordering from the Continental buffet, or if the sahibs would perhaps like to take dinner from the taco bar.† (source)
- I was at the buffet, sopping up brandy and a Dagwood of my own invention, when I was cornered by Schherazade's sister, the pretty one.† (source)
- At big stations passengers jumped out and ran to the buffet; the sun setting behind the station garden lit their feet and shone under the wheels of the train.† (source)
- From within crashed the music and at the buffet the waitresses hurriedly shouted their orders.† (source)
- We buffet, we tussle, we spring up and down on the hard, white beds.† (source)
- I recognised them all from the buffet-supper of the night of the ball.† (source)
- He had given me a buffet, you know, which troubled my brains.† (source)
- The light became darkness in Maymunah's sight when she heard those words, and she dealt Dahnash with her wing so fierce a buffet on the head as well-nigh made an end of him.† (source)
- New uniforms at the frontier, coffee and bread at the station buffet, people round us of Southern grace and gaiety; on again into the plains, conifers changing to vine and olive, a change of trains at Milan; garlic sausage, bread, and a flask of Orvieto bought from a trolley (we had spent all our money save for a few francs, in Paris); the sun mounted high and the country glowed with heat; the carriage filled with peasants, ebbing and flowing at each station, the smell of garlic was overwhelming in the hot carriage.† (source)
- Or again, they came to Jacksonville, lived there for several weeks near Pett and Greeley; he studied under a little crippled man from Harvard, going to lunch with his teacher at a buffet, where the man consumed beer and pretzels.† (source)
- Anyway, turkey, ham, champagne, cognac, fruit, and cake were set up on the buffet in Stella's apartment.† (source)
- One candle burned on the table, a tiny spark of light that threw monstrous shadows about the highceilinged room and made the massive sideboards and buffet look like still, crouching beasts.† (source)
- Beatrice too was surrounded, and Giles had led a team of stragglers to the buffet table in the drawing-room.† (source)
- After little more than an hour's fighting he managed to give Sir Carados such a buffet on the helm that it pierced his brain-pan—and then, while the dead man was still swaying in the saddle, he caught him by the collar, pulled him under his horse's feet, dismounted in the same instant, and struck off his head.† (source)
- She saw a long vista of picnics by the bubbling waters of Peachtree Creek and barbecues at Stone Mountain, receptions and balls, afternoon danceables, buggy rides and Sunday-night buffet suppers.† (source)
- Arthur Einhorn had come from Champaign for his grandfather's funeral and sat at the table in detached college elegance, hand in his woolly intellectual hair, taking it easy in the expected family folly of such an occasion; he was engaging and witty, though not youthful in appearance—he had lines in his cheeks already—despite his raccoon coat that was lying on the buffet with a beret dropped on it.† (source)
- From this point stretched the pleasant vista of drawing room and dining room beyond, the oval mahogany table which seated twenty and the twenty slim-legged chairs demurely against the walls, the massive sideboard and buffet weighted with heavy silver, with seven-branched candlesticks, goblets, cruets, decanters and shining little glasses.† (source)
- Men came to lay the floor for dancing in the great hall, and in the drawing-room some of the furniture was moved so that the long buffet tables could be placed against the wall.† (source)
- She need not have disturbed herself, for the waiter, with the uncanny swiftness of his kind, had long sensed my position as inferior and subservient to hers, and had placed before me a plate of ham and tongue that somebody had sent back to the cold buffet half an hour before as badly carved.† (source)
- Lying, pretending I knew all about it; and in the car going home I sat in my corner, biting my thumb nail, seeing the great hall at Manderley thronged with people in fancy dress, the chatter, hum, and laughter of the moving crowd, the musicians in the gallery, supper in the drawing-room probably, long buffet tables against the wall, and I could see Maxim standing at the front of the stairs, laughing, shaking hands, turning to someone who stood by his side, tall and slim, with dark hair, said the bishop's wife, dark hair against a white face, someone whose quick eyes saw to the comfort of her guests, who gave an order over her shoulder to a servant† (source)
- He opened a bottle of wine, of which he kept a small and select supply in a buffet of his own.† (source)
- It was the crowning buffet, the final victory of Philistia over art, beauty, and immaterial things.† (source)
- Ted balanced over to the low beveled mirror in the buffet, regarded his charms, and smirked.† (source)
- He sits by the buffet; the girl pours some out for him.† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL: Macaroons, lemon-drink... (The violins begin to play.)† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL (passing before him with a tray): Orange drink?† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL (taking her place behind the buffet): Oranges, milk, raspberry-water, cedar bitters!† (source)
- Christian, who is paying the buffet-girl, does not see her entrance.† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL (coughing, behind her counter): Hum!† (source)
- (He stands at the buffet, and placing before him first the macaroon): Dinner† (source)
- I shall mount the stage now, buffet-wise, To carve this fine Italian sausage—thus!† (source)
- A PAGE (in the pit): Here comes the buffet-girl!† (source)
- It was the first room from the entrance with a buffet along the wall.† (source)
- Some silver spoons which ornamented an old-fashioned buffet had just been discovered.† (source)
- "Truly, friend," said the Friar, clenching his huge fist, "I will bestow a buffet on thee."† (source)
- —In truth I had forgotten the buffet, though mine ear sung after it for a whole day.† (source)
- She was responsible for laying out an extensive cold buffet at breakfast and supper: shrimp and salmon, eel, goose breast and roast beef with tomato ketchup; she kept a vigilant eye on the extra servants hired when Consul Tienappel gave a formal dinner; and she was also the person who, as best she could, acted as a mother to little Hans Castorp.† (source)
- On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.† (source)
- "Ah!" thinks I to myself, "I have a better taunt in readiness; when I lie down and die, you will feel it like a buffet in your face; ah, what a revenge!† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL: Milk?† (source)
- She sat with Rosemary under an umbrella while Dick went to the buffet for a drink—he returned presently with some sherry for them.† (source)
- Then Martin also went rapidly away, accompanied by a furious Leora, who in the taxicab announced that she had desired to taste the champagne-cup which she had observed on the buffet, and that her husband was little short of a fool.† (source)
- It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.† (source)
- She ordered him to set the table, and as he trotted into the living-room, as he hunted through the buffet for knives and forks, he felt utterly at home.† (source)
- While he carved and gobbled, he went on discoursing till the dining-room, with its old walnut buffet, its Hoffmann pictures of Christ, and its Remington pictures of cowpunchers, seemed to vanish, leaving him on a platform beside a pitcher of ice-water.† (source)
- His fingers trembled so violently that it took four matches to light a cigarette; it seemed absolutely necessary to make his way into the buffet for a drink, but immediately Nicole returned.† (source)
- At the Glion funicular he checked his bicycle and took a small beer on the terrace of the station buffet, meanwhile watching the little bug crawl down the eighty-degree slope of the hill.† (source)
- The trim dining-room (with its admirable oak buffet, its leaded-glass cupboard, its creamy plaster walls, its modest scene of a salmon expiring upon a pile of oysters) had plugs which supplied the electric percolator and the electric toaster.† (source)
- As it was there was but a step or two from the little table to the kitchen, to the mantel, the small buffet, and the side door that opened out on the narrow brick-paved yard.† (source)
- Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of the rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside.† (source)
- Her eyes followed his, searching among the new paraphernalia, the trapezes over the water, the swinging rings, the portable bathhouses, the floating towers, the searchlights from last night's fêtes, the modernistic buffet, white with a hackneyed motif of endless handlebars.† (source)
- At the minute when he wondered whether or not he had time for a drink at the buffet, and began clutching at the soggy wad of thousand-franc notes in his pocket, one end of his pendulous glance came to rest upon the apparition of Nicole at the stairhead.† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL: Thank you, kind Sir!† (source)
- (Showing the buffet): See, all you need† (source)
- THE BUFFET-GIRL: Take something else!† (source)
- On the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, red placards bearing the words, 'La Clorise.'† (source)
- Cuigy, Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc. (A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door.† (source)
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