How to Use trestle table in a Sentence

trestle table

noun
  • Shutters opened and trestle tables laden with books began to multiply in the streets.
    — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The white finish of the long trestle table maintains a minimal look.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Sally prefers weighing buckets of blueberries on an electronic scale that sits at one end of the trestle table.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Create the perfect breakfast nook with this trestle table, which features shelving on the end to store kitchen supplies and curios.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Our class begins at nine o’clock in the morning at a trestle table in the glasshouse, where the students meet over a basket of pistachio pastries.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2018
  • To maximize entertaining space, downsize an island and add a trestle table with stools.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The antique French trestle table is the perfect foil for the contemporary wishbone chairs.
    — House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2022
  • For example, this antique trestle table easily serves as an island, a prep station, and a dining table as needed.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The sleek 75-inch-long glass top surface highlights the trestle table base, and its rounded corners offer a modern, feminine look.
    — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Carts, dollies, buckets, trestle tables, and concertina platforms are rolled around the open floors in a complex yet orderly choreography.
    — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The couple often host casual dinner parties at the terrace’s antique Italian trestle table.
    — Melissa Barrett Rhodes, ELLE Decor, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Yet, despite these terrible injuries, everyone's smiling and chatting, gulping down coffee and gobbling the danishes laid out on trestle tables in a white tent.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The Pottery Barn trestle table with breadboard leaves accommodates many people without overtaking the room.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
  • The stock Richie could not flog even at ten for a pound was stacked in plastic boxes, on trestle tables, dumped in a steel skip on Folgate Street under a quick November sky threatening rain.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Rows of grape vines are surrounded by majestic eucalyptus trees under which trestle tables are being prepared for the winery’s 30th-anniversary celebration tomorrow.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The fireside brunch at the hotel’s Glitretind Restaurant is a must-have meal; wooden trestle tables are heaped with pastries, salads, crepes, cheeses, eggs, and smoked fish (and the requisite carving table), evoking the chalet-chic of Lech, Austria.
    — Amy Tara Koch, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Last month, more than six hundred people ate lunch together on trestle tables that snaked through the cobbled streets of Acciaroli, to celebrate fifteen years since Unesco designated the Mediterranean diet part of Italy’s intangible cultural heritage.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025

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