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How to use cutlery in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Cutlery means sharp cutting utensils. Example: “Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.”

Examples of cutlery by meaning

nounSharp cutting utensils.

  • Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.

nounEating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

  • a cutlery set
  • This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.

More sentences with cutlery

  • The waiter brought our orders to the table, but forgot the cutlery.From the entry order
  • Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.From the entry station
  • The cutlery was chinging as the boat swayed around on the sea.From the entry ching
  • Jimmy and Ravi put together fine silver cutlery, crystal clear glasses and oriental decorated crockery.2017, Steven Baker, chapter 16, in Colour Sergeant Chesney V.C., Kibworth, Leics.: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry crystal clear
  • Several china and cutlery manufacturers now indicate that their goods are machine-washable.1986, Gwen Conacher, Kitchen Sense for Disabled People, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry machine-washable
  • There's an unstable stack of upturned plates and bowls on the draining board and an assortment of sudsy cutlery.2018, Julia Kelly, Matchstick Man: The Story of a Relationship. From the entry sudsy
  • The cutlery increasing on the drainer, chock a block, While the sink is overflowing as the dishes run amok!2010, Sue Allen, Life.....(in General), →ISBN, page 32. From the entry chock a block
  • Not only do blades of grass and bright blue skies line the posted menus, but all cutlery and cupware is biodegradable.2009, Jared Koch, Alex Van Buren, Clean Plates N.Y.C.: A Guide to the Healthiest, Tastiest Restaurants in Manhattan for Vegetarians and…. From the entry cupware
  • The 'immobiles' brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery.2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry mobile
  • The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery.2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry immobile
  • In their place are tables that show off stoneware serving plates with brass cutlery certain to make anyone who subscribes to the clean-girl esthetic salivate.2022 August 3, Bianca Bharti, “The Indigo evolution: Vibrators & cutlery”, in National Post. From the entry clean girl
  • My grey tray had a white overcloth, and real cutlery – what a delight – was rolled in the white linen napkin, held in a silver paper band.2006, Onboard Hospitality - Issues 20-29, page 62. From the entry overcloth

Meaning of cutlery

  1. noun Sharp cutting utensils.
  2. noun Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.
  3. noun The business of a cutler.

Full definition of cutlery

Questions about cutlery in a sentence

How do you use cutlery in a sentence?
Cutlery is used as a noun. For example: “Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.”
What is a short sentence with cutlery?
“a cutlery set”
What does cutlery mean?
Cutlery means sharp cutting utensils.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutlery (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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