How to Use tableau in a Sentence

tableau

noun

• The houses are grouped together in a charming tableau.
• This calming tableau is the break your eyes need from screen time.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2023
• The props are used to create tableaux in her subjects’ homes.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 10 June 2017
• But this blissful tableau is all-too fleeting.
  — Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2025
• For me, writing starts with tableaux, with visions.
  — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
• Non-parading groups will just have a ball, a tableau or an opening skit.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• Each piece is, in its way, a tableau come to fluid life, with drama to spare.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• The idea was to transform the group into a seamless bird tableau.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• As the tableau kicked into a rollicking gear, so too did the maskers.
  — The Masked Observer, al, 25 Feb. 2022
• But here, the tableau vanishes as fast as the dancers found their unity.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• Temp in teens should make for classic Lambeau tableau, though sans the snow.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
• On the left side of the tableau, a man stomps on grapes to make more wine, and on the right, a bear walks on its hind legs.
  — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 7 July 2025
• The unique art offers a textured tableau ripe for a variety of hues.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 May 2021
• Any hint of fantasy in the tableau dissolved in the next instant.
  — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• The result is a miniature tableau of landscape that moves with the seasons.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 July 2025
• His backdrop was a colorful tableau of posters, a neon sign, and a dozing dog.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
• On tv in particular, friends in the city yarns are obliged to hit certain tableaux.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
• With his frilly tableau, Favela backs up the question of identity.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 4 Mar. 2017
• The final movement, a hunting song, more evoked a genteel tableau than a chase.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• This is contrary to the tableau presented on the cover and, thus, where satire comes in.
  — Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
• The scene isn’t a real sculpture at all but rather a girl dressed in gold from head to toe, standing in tableaux.
  — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• In each level, the player confronts one of the crime scenes, unearthing clues in its frozen tableau.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• Elaborate swords flanked the men, and a number of gaming pieces were strewn over this strange tableau mourant.
  — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2020
• The streets of Kyiv once again were a tableau of destruction not seen since the early days of the war.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• The simple beauty of this tableau leads Emily the ghost to break down sobbing.
  — Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
• The room was a radiant tableau of Black beauty and brilliance.
  — Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
• The tableau might just contain members of the next big set of TV anchors, too.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
• All things considered, the tableau could just as well be a bland suburb of Pittsburgh.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 1 May 2018
• This year, red mums add to the colorful tableau, and pumpkins are perched even high above Young’s front door.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• The tableaux will then be rehearsed at least three times before the final rehearsals in June.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2017