How to Use buffet in a Sentence

buffet

1 of 2 noun
  • There was a free bar and a buffet.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Drinks are not part of the buffet.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The buffet-style meal will last up to two hours.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Not a gym rat but want to burn off the late-night snacks and buffet bites?
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Give your eyes an ear buffet of story.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Cut each cob in half for buffet-sized servings.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
  • Off to one side of the room was a buffet-style set up for snacks, drinks and lunch.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There’s plenty to go around, but don’t be late to the buffet line with this crowd.
    — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Warm, light, and fluffy, these sweet potato rolls will be the talk of the buffet line.
    — Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Kids can drop in and create with our buffet-style craft setup.
    — Sarah Z. Sleeper, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There is a man who works there readying the breakfast buffet.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There is a man that works there readying the breakfast buffet.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Add lamp lighting on a side table or buffet.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The large field offers an ample buffet from which to choose.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The catch even saved a lunch buffet that was stationed just beyond the wall.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
  • The sprawling buffet has an entire room just for cold cuts, cheeses, and pates.
    — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
  • Many of you said your buffet tables were filled with pies, cobblers, and cakes.
    — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • String them up around your charm station, near your bar cart, or next to your buffet table.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Your backyard is not a squirrel buffet.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • Will dinner be plated or buffet-style?
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Well there are about 150 dishes on the buffet trays that line the side wall.
    — Richard Guzman, Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Later, there was a decadent evening buffet.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Invest in a set of two and use the pair to flank a grand mirror or plate wall above your beloved buffet.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Screw on the top of the thermos, label it and place it right on the buffet table.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The buffet Buffets can get busy right when a cruise begins.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But the truth is, there is nothing better than a buffet table filled with pies.
    — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
  • All food for thought — but a self-reflecting buffet for a later date.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • But as life creeps back to normal, people are once again making their way to buffets.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The buffet starts when the gates open and ends one hour after the first pitch during every game.
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Serve on your buffet on card night and enjoy sipping while playing rounds of bridge with friends.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024

buffet

2 of 2 verb
  • The strong winds buffeted the ship.
  • Before your guests get there, set up your bar and buffet with everything guests need to help themselves.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Of course, the buffeting wind whistling through that truck’s panel and door gaps certainly didn’t help.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Issues of fame, family and second chances buffet both films.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Six arrived and stayed briefly as Marco’s winds began to buffet the coastline.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The beat whirrs and whirls, sounding like wind buffeting through a helicopter’s rotors.
    — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
  • So even though there’s buffeting, even though there’s loud voices raised, left, right, and center, trans people exist.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Earth is currently being buffeted by a high-speed solar wind stream from a colossal coronal hole on the sun.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • And in reality, we are all buffeted by forces beyond our control.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Rescuers said two men who survived were spotted trying to save children by holding them over their heads as waves buffeted them.
    — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In years prior, the show has been buffeted by bad publicity, bad reviews and bad numbers.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Twenty-year-old Izzy Johnson has already been buffeted by this.
    — Jon Marcus, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But recently, this iconic Ugandan food has been buffeted by events on the other side of the world.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Binance ecosystem is among the highest profile to be buffeted.
    — Olga Kharif, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Climate change has buffeted Vermont again, but the neighborly people here abide and will be ready for the next one.
    — Anne Galloway, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • Heavy rain and gusty winds will buffet western and central Cuba by evening, where a tropical storm watch is in effect.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Wind gusts buffeted the mountain and churned the air into a flurry of ice crystals that stung the climbers’ faces and crackled against their helmets.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Bartlett captured the comet's twisting ion tail wax and wane as it was buffeted by the solar wind emanating from our parent star.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Households have been buffeted by high energy prices for two years and the political parties are keen not to add to that burden.
    — Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Within a matter of weeks, my building, which had long stood to the lee of prevailing winds, was now buffeted by gusts blowing in off the harbor.
    — Justin Beal, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The weather in Orkney is mild but wild year-round, with skies that switch between sun and showers several times a day, buffeted by a stiff wind.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The upper Plains is also expected to be buffeted by strong winds gusting up to 50mph at time.
    — Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Stocks, meanwhile, were buffeted by near-constant headlines about the war and closed the trading session well off their lowest levels of the day.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But turbulence, which can buffet a jet even in clear skies and has proved difficult to accurately predict, has been far tougher to contain.
    — Alan Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • And so David was buffeted by forces beyond his control, in a world divided between first sons and younger sons, between haves and have-nots.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In recent years, rail service has been buffeted by economic headwinds and a shrinking shoreline from rising seas.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Storms buffet the higher reaches and avalanches rip open the slopes, hurling debris at camps and villages, often without warning.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The move also may boost Abiy at home, buffeted by a tanking economy and ruinous ethnic conflicts.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The result is high-decibel acoustic loads that can cause structural damage as well as buffeting that can prevent the missile from even leaving the bay.
    — David Szondy june 04, New Atlas, 4 June 2026
  • Ferrell, who bought her place three decades ago as a beach getaway and has since moved in full-time, said a bit of flooding is common during tropical storms that buffet the coast.
    — Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020

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