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    Use "trestle" in a sentence

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    trestle


    1. ’ She demonstrated how the lounge and dining rooms open up into one large room – ‘I reckon that, with some trestle tables from the church hall, we could seat everyone without too much trouble


    2. Katie and Jake are going to finish the glasses so that they can go back in the boxes, and they’ve offered to help carry the trestle tables and chair back to the hall


    3. centre of the room ran a series of trestle tables on which


    4. There was a long trestle


    5. The women of the clan were laying a group of cooking fires and setting up trestle tables with mugs and plates and various sized bottles


    6. There was a large army tent erected in the middle of the green and he could see through the entrance that it was full of trestle tables and a variety of chairs


    7. simply with a low trestle table and two long benches


    8. Danny and Torreano took their places at one of the wooden trestle tables that had been placed all around the house


    9. Because the communal latrines were just pits about ten feet long a yard wide and about five feet deep above the pit was a trestle with a pole resting on it that ran the length of the pit


    10. Four chairs stood behind a trestle table

    11. Gilarene delivered the mistress’ mug to her whilst Milandene, pushing her grey hair behind her ears, cupped her mug in both hands along with the rest of the long suffering sisters and awaited the order to sit at the trestle table and benches


    12. The dummy was trying get away from us by crossing the river sort of tight rope walking on the lower span of a rusting railway trestle


    13. Past that, an old trestle bridge spanning a gorge


    14. DI Morton picked up an evidence bag from the trestle table and held it up


    15. When she had gleaned as much as she could from this she turned to the exhibits bagged up and tagged on the trestle table


    16. She held the paper up towards the neon strip lights, looked at it closely, then put it back down onto the trestle table


    17. Occasionally he went over to the stage and put a batch of papers or a file on the trestle table


    18. When he thought everyone else in the room was completely absorbed in what they were doing he went over to the trestle table with a file, and put it down next to the evidence bag containing the note


    19. In a short time they came to a large trestle bridge over a wide river, and


    20. He first looked at the exhibits on the trestle table in their evidence bags that were still being kept at the temporary HQ, waiting till forensics had the time and manpower available to work on them

    21. In anybody’s language the exhumed coffin on its wheeled collapsible trestle was a macabre sight


    22. Understanding that Marshall’s question was in reality a backdoor opening he was offering her to present her own opinions, Ingrid calmly got up and walked to the side of the European map board, grabbing the wooden pointer hooked to the supporting trestle


    23. I cleared some space in the shop and put up folding chairs and a trestle table for snacks and bottles


    24. Two weeks on the lake doing nothing but listening to the radio all day (Burlington had a great rock station back then that played all the good stuff), playing ping pong in the rec hall (which meant one brother always beating the other, but the other never seeming to mind too much), walking the old railroad trestle out into the lake, swimming out to the raft and catching some rays for hours on end, fishing with their father at night, and, of course, flirting with the girls whose families had come down from Canada for a couple weeks of vacation


    25. A trestle table had been erected there beneath a canopy emblazoned with the arms of the Earl of Huntingdon


    26. A trestle table, two benches and two chairs were all made of ornately carved wood


    27. Whenever they had a tea meeting - which was on an average about twice a week - there were the trestle tables to fix up, the chairs to arrange, the table to set out, and then, supervised by Miss Didlum or some other lady, the tea to make


    28. There was a berm and a train trestle over the highway south of me


    29. revealed trestle tables, benches, a lectern and a wall painting of Jesus at a wedding feast


    30. When they found the cove, they left the manager in charge of the boat, crossed some railroad tracks, walked gingerly across a narrow trestle, and headed uphill through the woods

    31. ‘I’m here! There’s a cake, with candles! Here’s the ruddy sandwiches! I’m not off sunning myself in the Bahamas!’ Mum put her pile of plates heavily on the trestle table and folded her arms


    32. We put the food on the trestle table and Jake was on bar duty, pouring the champagne and looking curiously pleased at the responsibility


    33. An ornate trestle table stood surrounded by camp chairs


    34. figures of animals; others bore on their broad backs trays with bowls and platters and knives and wooden spoons, which the dogs took and quickly laid on the trestle tables


    35. In a trice, Horatio and the Merry Men march’d out of my Chamber and into the adjoining one, busied themselves there for a Time, whereupon they march’d back, carrying a long Trestle Table set with Breakfast for all of us, and serv’d in such resplendent golden Plates and Goblets that I should have thought myself the Queen of England to merit it


    36. She had set up a trestle bench, scattered with bits of mirror and several hacksaws


    37. He sat at a trestle table and leant his elbows on it as Jess unfastened the pack


    38. He had turned and I had turned with him along the darkening riverbank toward the trestle where the night trains ran over going east, going west, but stopping rare few times


    39. This engine, encountering a split rail one night, leaped a trestle and dived twenty feet into a mudhole


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    Synonyms for "trestle"

    trestle ledge counter bench stand booth board

    "trestle" definitions

    a supporting tower used to support a bridge


    sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop