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buffet
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buffet as in:  buffeted by

The small boar was buffeted by the powerful waves.
buffeted = hit repeatedly
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  • Winds buffeted the tent.
  • When he sets her down, she takes him by the hand and over to the buffet table, where I'm busying myself rearranging the cookie plate.  (source)
    buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
  • The evening concluded with a buffet supper for the Pleiades and their guests at the Round Room, lavishly hosted by Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior.  (source)
    buffet = a self-serve meal
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  • I was weary myself, overwatched, buffeted by wave upon wave.  (source)
    buffeted = hit
  • Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.†  (source)
  • I surveyed the long stainless-steel buffets.†  (source)
  • The argument seemed to have sailed into a harbor after many buffetings, and Conway added: "I can't help my feelings either.†  (source)
  • A buffet of wind made him stagger and he saw that he was out in the open, on rock, under a brassy sky.  (source)
    buffet = push
  • Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.  (source)
    buffeted = hit
  • Outside the window there was nothing to be seen but a buffeting curtain of white.†  (source)
  • Sand buffets my face, biting at my skin before solidifying into another creature.†  (source)
  • By reason of his own early buffetings at the mood of chance and established prosperity the idea appealed to him intensely.†  (source)
  • The torrent roared, and we did buffet it  (source)
    buffet = fought
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buffet as in:  all-you-can-eat buffet

The hotel offers a free, buffet breakfast.
buffet = self-serve meal
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  • There was a buffet of much variety at the wedding reception.
  • "They're worth the price of the buffet by themselves!" my mom and I would chime in.  (source)
  • A few weeks earlier, I had sat with Mom at a Chinese buffet as she tried in vain to shovel food in her mouth.  (source)
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  • Sometimes, at day's end, the cook at the buffet-style restaurant let Rasheed bring home a few leftovers-as long as he was discreet about it-  (source)
    buffet = self-serve
  • I would have a magnificent buffet.  (source)
    buffet = self-serve meal
  • Carrot bread and oatmeal might have been welcome at that buffet table.†  (source)
  • Around us big men in overalls lined up for the $4.75 buffet breakfast.†  (source)
  • There are piles of food on the table, served buffet style, just like at the Kweilin feasts.†  (source)
  • She and her boyfriend go out Saturday nights to a buffet dinner.†  (source)
  • "He's doing good, huh?" said Nathan, as he met me by the buffet.†  (source)
  • No, but she works in a bar with a buffet.†  (source)
  • He telephoned Lucille Wright, the cateress, and asked her to prepare a buffet of low-country food.†  (source)
  • After we checked in, the five of us ate a buffet lunch in the hotel restaurant.†  (source)
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buffet as in:  placed on the buffet

She placed coffee and drinks on the buffet in the dining room.
buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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  • The judge pointed him to the serving buffet and apologized to her caller.  (source)
  • He hurls the champagne glass against the wall, where it shatters, spraying fragments of crystal all over the buffet table.  (source)
    buffet = a type of table from which food can be served
  • To the left through the doorway stood a large walnut buffet in what must have been the diningroom.  (source)
    buffet = a type of furniture from which meals can be served
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