Sample Sentences for
buffet
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(editor-reviewed)

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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    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.  (source)
    buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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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.  (source)
    buffet = push
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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.  (source)
    buffeted = hit
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    Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.†  (source)
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    Sand buffets my face, biting at my skin before solidifying into another creature.†  (source)
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    By reason of his own early buffetings at the mood of chance and established prosperity the idea appealed to him intensely.†  (source)
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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.  (source)
    buffet = a self-serve meal
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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.  (source)
    buffeted = caused to bounce
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    She felt the buffeting of dust-blanketed wind.†  (source)
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    I surveyed the long stainless-steel buffets.†  (source)
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    He is so zealous that he gets many snubs and buffetings from people of a different way of thinking from himself, and I don't like to hear of such humiliations to a man of his age, the more particularly as I don't think earnestness does any good when carried so far.†  (source)
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    The torrent roared, and we did buffet it  (source)
    buffet = fought
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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.
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    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)
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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-  (source)
    buffet = self-serve
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    "They're worth the price of the buffet by themselves!" my mom and I would chime in.  (source)
    buffet = self-serve meal
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    I would have a magnificent buffet.  (source)
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    On a low buffet at the back wall were the dishes set out for serving that Gaius had described to us.†  (source)
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    It is also true that even after arriving at the party we avoided the buffet and the punch bowl.†  (source)
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    We filled our trays at a buffet line and were allowed to sit wherever we wished.†  (source)
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    She said purpose and he felt the word buffet him, reinfecting him with terrible purpose.†  (source)
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    Ozzie and Prather had a bad buffet lunch on a busy concourse, not far from the lounge.†  (source)
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    No, but she works in a bar with a buffet.†  (source)
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    "He's doing good, huh?" said Nathan, as he met me by the buffet.†  (source)
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    Dan dropped the spoon, and it clattered against the edge of the buffet.†  (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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    The judge pointed him to the serving buffet and apologized to her caller.  (source)
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    He hurls the champagne glass against the wall, where it shatters, spraying fragments of crystal all over the buffet table.  (source)
    buffet = a type of table from which food can be served
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    To the left through the doorway stood a large walnut buffet in what must have been the diningroom.  (source)
    buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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