Most of them were gathered around a long table fairly groaning with food.

Long tables set on trestles groaned with food and drink.

The tables were already groaning under the weight of the cutlery, and it would be hours before any real food was put on them.

She invites people to her home and the tables are groaning with food.

The table groans under the weight of the food, and a crowd gathers round with hungry looks.

The table, not being of the strongest, creaked and groaned in protest under his weight.

Some of the women were nursing babies, and the table was literally groaning with food.

Now one course of food followed another, until the table groaned beneath the weight of the elaborate meal.

There the tables groaned under the weight of roasted chicken and new-baked bread.

One table groaned under the whole of Verdi's Rigoletto on 78s.