How to Use high table in a Sentence

high table

noun
  • Also, keep food out of reach, like on a counter or high table.
    — Amy Jamieson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Make sure there are high tables so people can move and mingle.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • Millan sat at a high table, flipping through photos on his phone.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • One zone will be geared toward fast diners, and will include high tables and barstools.
    — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 11 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • The waiting area, styled more like an airport lounge than a standard gate, has a mix of high tables, sofas and leather chairs.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Long banks of desks and high tables with stools faced a stage dressed with the sky-blue and black CSX livery.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 3 July 2024
  • Emerging powers have long complained that they have been excluded from the global high table.
    — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Customers sit outside, perched on tiny stools around knee-high tables, intensely focused on backgammon boards.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • De Rochefort’s tapas restaurants have a bar, high tables for dining to continue the bar feel and an open kitchen where guests can view the food action.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2024
  • And Shapiro came into his job interview with demands, asking for guarantees and a seat at the high table.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • There’s still going to be a desire to elevate India’s prominence at the high tables of global governance.
    — Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Fifty employees sat hunched over high tables covered in white cloth, furiously making final adjustments.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Expect cask ales, craft beers, and plates like the XXL Stovetop Toastie, served at high tables beneath heritage green tiling.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The wheelhouse, while serving as command center to the captain and crew, also accommodates guests with a pair of elevated sofas with high tables.
    — Kathleen Turner, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • There are children eating from high tables downstairs and octogenarians playing cards upstairs.
    — Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier sits at a high table.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • At Christ Church, Oxford, one of the university’s most storied colleges, the long high table in the dining hall has been in place since the college’s founding in 1546.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Top patio furniture that costs $1,500 or more With six stylish counter-height chairs and a high table, this patio furniture offers a more sophisticated take on the usual dining sets.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026

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