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For example, our minds easily connect chair and table, ham and eggs, brother and sister.
FORBES: Are You Making the Right Connections?
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Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Practice of Deceit'
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The glistening arc of water overruns the waiting cup, misses its mark, splashes over table and chair-the pitcher slipping from defeated fingers, striking the stone floor, shattering into jagged shards.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'
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Noisily, she set up the tray table and dragged her chair to the side of his bed.
NEWYORKER: The Visitor
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She makes faces now and then, passing behind his chair at the dinner table.
NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky
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By dessert, he was almost sprawled across the table and she was practically falling off her chair.
FORBES: Knowing When to Back Off
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He sat next to the phone table in the hall and hooked his feet on a chair rung to keep them out of the water.
NEWYORKER: Idols
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The one-room building contained a table with a porcelain top and a hide-bottomed chair, both sitting under an unfrosted light bulb hanging from the ceiling on a long cord, and Obie went in and scraped dust and fallen dirt-dauber nests off the table with the side of his hand.
NEWYORKER: Idols
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We've gotten pictures of fans at the dinner table, and there's an Ugly with its own chair.
WSJ: How Did Those 'Ugly Dolls' Come to Be? Their Creators Explain
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Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, including the first chair whose height could be adjusted via a gas piston and spring, and a fold-up office table that replaced screws and plates with simple interlocking hinges.
FORBES: The Chair Men
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Her father had somehow ambulated in from the den, and was arranged sideways at the kitchen table, his bright-white cast propped on a second chair.
NEWYORKER: Soldier��s Joy