Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use pot in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Pot means a flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes). Example: “Shit or get off the pot.”

Examples of pot by meaning

nounThe nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.

  • Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000...

nounA vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.

  • Shit or get off the pot.
  • “Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?”2011, Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek, page 204
  • Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot.2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s...

nounAn earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.

  • "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85

nounRuin or deterioration.

  • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.

nounThe money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money...

  • No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

nounAn allocation of money for a particular purpose.

  • a pension pot
  • a savings pot

verbTo put (something) into a pot.

  • to pot a plant

verbTo be capable of being potted.

  • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.

More sentences with pot

  • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.From the entry name
  • The black was previously unavailable, but in potting that red, he's now pushed the black on.From the entry on
  • Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff.From the entry buy
  • When the pot comes to a boil, cover it and reduce the heat to medium.From the entry cover
  • In potting the yellow ball, he's knocked the green into play.From the entry play
  • Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?From the entry stir
  • With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.From the entry chop
  • The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.From the entry parma
  • In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.From the entry chip
  • He accidentally hit the old pot, making it bong loudly against the table.From the entry bong
  • She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.From the entry mix up
  • I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.From the entry entice
  • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.From the entry penurious
  • I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.From the entry cooking
  • Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.From the entry isotonic
  • She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.From the entry lazily
  • The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.From the entry unspoken
  • He sweetened the pot since there were no takers in the office pool.From the entry sweeten the pot
  • The laser was pot modded, so eventually its diode burned out with overuse.From the entry pot mod
  • There are quite a few split pot possibilities with these two hands.From the entry split pot
  • I thought John would never shut up. He could talk the legs off a pot.From the entry talk the legs off a pot
  • If a player voluntarily puts money in the pot every two hands, their VPIP is 50%.From the entry VPIP
  • The honey in the pot should last for years.From the entry honey
  • We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.From the entry flower
  • I got some pot cheap on the street.From the entry street
  • He'd like to pot the pink, but I don't think it will go. The green's in the way.From the entry go
  • The artichokes are steaming in the pot.From the entry steam
  • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.From the entry heat
  • She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.From the entry mix up

Meaning of pot

  1. noun A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
  2. noun The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
  3. noun A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.

Full definition of pot

Questions about pot in a sentence

How do you use pot in a sentence?
Pot is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Shit or get off the pot.”
What is a short sentence with pot?
“a pension pot”
What does pot mean?
Pot means a flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pot (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use pot in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/pot. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.