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• If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.From the entry fire
• Some of the pottery is so smashed that it's not feasible even to do a restorative repair.From the entry smashed
• When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.From the entry kiln
• He coned the top of the pottery to make it look like a dunce cap.From the entry coned
• Most of the provenanced pottery vessels were found in San Diego county middens.From the entry provenanced
• Having failed as a musician, I turned my hand to pottery instead.From the entry turn one's hand to
• That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.From the entry indigenous
• They still make pottery by hand, in the age-old tradition.From the entry age-old
• In pottery, a stone is sometimes used to burnish a pot before firing, giving it a smooth, shiny look.From the entry burnish
• She had set the table with watermelon place mats and her favorite green pottery luncheonware.2005, Susan Wittig Albert, Dead Man’s Bones, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry luncheonware
• Bonfiring has a very direct contact between the pottery and the flame.2004, Moira Vincentelli, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry bonfiring
• This unusual technique distinguished the look and aroma of Navajo pottery.2003, Susan Peterson, “The Legacy of Generation: Pottery by Contemporary American Indian Women”, in Susan R. Ressler, editor, Woman…. From the entry bonfire
• Wood wool has been widely used as a space filler for packaging glassware, pottery, ceramics, etc.1990, Frank A. Paine, The Packaging User’s Handbook, →ISBN, page 576. From the entry wood wool
• The pottery has few forms: bowls with conical and biconical profile, amphoras, cantharuses, lids, strainers, etc.1978, Naseljavanje i naselja u praistoriji, page 82. From the entry cantharuses
• Somewhat surprisingly, the development of agriculture, pottery, and an elaborated culinary utensilry had no dramatically visible effect.1977, James A. McNamara, Katherine A. Ribbens, editors, The Biology of Occlusal Development: Proceedings of a Sponsored Symposium Honoring…. From the entry utensilry
• A pottery figure of a Mexican god who was thought to assume the shapes of many animals.1973, Nancy Garden, Werewolves, Lippincott (1973), page 115 (image caption). From the entry werejaguar
• Also absent from Kytherian pottery are a number of other motifs current in Cretan L.M.1973, Nicolas Coldstream, George Leonard Huxley, Kythera; Excavations and Studies Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and…. From the entry Kytherian
• Prehistoric pottery, art, cave painting, engraving can be incorporated into the exhibition as an added colourful attraction.1972 January–March, Dilip Kumar Ray, “Some Thoughts on the Problems of Arrangement of Anthropological Specimen in Museums”, in Amalendu…. From the entry cave painting
• There are all types and sizes of pottery housed in the museum.1970 November, Carolina Country, volume 2, number 11, page 10. From the entry crockware
• See the superb designs we have to offer in the famous Lincoln gardenware pottery.1917 fall and winter, “Some Dont’s^([sic])”, in What and When to Plant, Los Angeles, Calif.: Howard & Smith, page 4. From the entry gardenware
• Majolica is the term used to describe pottery made of an earthenware body coated with semi-translucent coloured lead glazes.2018, Claire Blakey, “Minton Majolica: A Visual Feast of Victorian Opulence”, in The Minton Archive, archived from the original on 05 May…. From the entry majolica
• Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry abortion
• Tony & John invite you to view their functional pottery and dineware, teapots, vases, garden fountains and more.2006 September 15, North Bay Nugget, page A4. From the entry dineware
• “After having dug four meters, we noticed some fragments of arms, legs and arrow heads made from pottery.”2003 December 26, Su Wei, “We Found the Terracotta Warriors!”, in Beijing Today, number 135, →ISSN, →OCLC, 焦点 [jiāodiǎn, Focus], page 8…. From the entry Xiahe
• Since the Anglo occupation of the Great Basin, pottery has been a global commodity in the world market.1999 September, Timothy J. Scarlett, “Narcissus’s Mirror: Manufacture and Modernism in the American Great Basin—The Case of Pottery”, in…. From the entry anglo
• Through color and tone Byzantine potters gave to sgraffito pottery qualities that go beyond the contrasts possible in metalwork.1992, Dēmētra Papanikola-Bakirtzē, Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire, Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres (Illinois Byzantine Studies…. From the entry sgraffito
• There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pieces — from flowerpots to milkjugs — available from this Minnesota city’s potteries.1991, Linda Campbell Franklin, 300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles, 3rd edition, Florence, Ala.: Books Americana, →ISBN, page 66, column 2. From the entry milkjug
• Early pottery was decorated both by painting and by manipulation of the clay itself with stamped, scratched, carved, and appliqued ornament.1987, Renbo Wang, “General Comments on Chinese Funerary Sculpture”, in The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the…. From the entry Luonan
• They all come to appreciate the exquisite pottery made in the town, for Yingko is the ceramics capital of Taiwan.1983 February 5, “Yingko -- Taiwan's ceramics capital”, in Arab News, volume VIII, number 69, Saudi Arabia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 4. From the entry exquisite
• There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork.1982, Betty Jane Morison, Champagne and a Gardener. From the entry beanpot
• Because this painted pottery culture was first discovered at Yangshao village in Mienchih county, Honan province, it is called Yangshao culture.1973 June, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs…. From the entry Yangshao
• All the family’s collectibles — sculptures, pottery, photographs — are temptingly and climbingly within reach of the towheaded youngster.1972 November 19, Tania Demchuk, “Life Has Been Good To The Patrick Tahaneys”, in Orlando Sentinel, volume 88, number 189, Orlando, Fla.…. From the entry climbingly
• Less well known than the Staffordshire brands, Poole pottery is equally distinctive, with delicate pastel flower designs predominating.1963 June 16, Margaret Berkvist, “Fond Recollections of British Mementos; Taste of Yorkshire Pebble Treasures”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry jampot
• W of Taipei and on railroad; coal mining; clay quarry; distilling; mfg. of pottery, bricks and tiles, rush mats.1952, “Yingko”, in Leon E. Seltzer, editor, The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University…. From the entry Jap.
• A funerary ceremony comparable to that reported from Kolomoki site is indicated, though no "pottery kill” was located.1951, Bulletin - Eastern States Archeological Federation, page 11. From the entry kill
• The stack of one of the pottery kills is still a visible land mark of this once thriving industry.1945, Arthur Edwin James, The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania, page 34. From the entry kill

Meaning of pottery

1. noun Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
2. noun A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
3. noun The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.

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Questions about pottery in a sentence

How do you use pottery in a sentence?

Pottery is used as a noun. For example: “The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.”

What is a short sentence with pottery?

“Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.”

What does pottery mean?

Pottery means fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.