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How to use teapot in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Teapot means a vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout. Example: “The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot.”

More sentences with teapot

  • The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot.From the entry tempest in a teapot
  • A stringless guitar is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.From the entry stringless
  • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.From the entry spout
  • The teapot was brought to life in the animated movie.From the entry bring to life
  • The recursive compound word "chocolate teapot" is composed of "chocolate" and "teapot" which itself is also a compound word composed of "tea" and "pot".From the entry recursive compound word
  • He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips.2015, A.J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down. From the entry drinking-cup
  • She filled up the plastic teapot with water, and then we each had our own teacup.2014, Dawn McNiff, Little Celeste, Hot Key Books, →ISBN. From the entry teapotful
  • Molly poured from the teapot and Judith drank the strong hot tea and ate the buttered teacakes.2008 December 11, Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry teacake
  • At the RfB site you will find the complete dataset for the Utah teapot and Gumbo.2004, Saty Raghavachary, Rendering for Beginners: Image Synthesis Using RenderMan. From the entry Utah teapot
  • Figure 23.7 demonstrates our smoothing operator applied to a preliminary 3D scan conversion of the Utah teapot.2003, Stanley Osher, Nikos Paragios, Geometric level set methods in imaging, vision, and graphics. From the entry Utah teapot
  • As soon as customers are seated, a teapot of bancha is brought to the table.1995, Dawn Campbell, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry bancha
  • Among shapes so far discovered are teapots, mugs, jugs, coffee cups, bowls, plates, sauceboats and a spoontray.1985, Martin Miller, Judith Miller, compilers, Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 1986, volume VII, Maidstone, Kent: M.J.M. Publications Ltd.…. From the entry spoontray
  • Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter. From the entry ciborium
  • Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 52. From the entry for sure
  • 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
  • They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots.1950, Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, New York, N.Y.: Gramercy Publishing Company, page 18. From the entry dessertware
  • Also there are many larger cups and saucers, dishes, teapots and jugs, all very beautiful and some with S in underglaze blue marked on them.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 236. From the entry underglaze
  • Illustrating the strength of feeling, some said Dorries was “never here and is as useful as a chocolate teapot”, while “Dosser Dorries” posters appeared in the area.2023 October 20, “Labour takes Nadine Dorries’ former seat in Mid Bedfordshire byelection”, in The Guardian, UK. From the entry dosser
  • A teapot moulded in the form of Madonna, tastefully hand-coloured, named md dated (doubtless a century from now to be deemed to be some sort of religious vessel)?1988, Punch. From the entry afterbear

Meaning of teapot

  1. noun A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

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Questions about teapot in a sentence

How do you use teapot in a sentence?
Teapot is used as a noun. For example: “The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot.”
What is a short sentence with teapot?
“I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”
What does teapot mean?
Teapot means a vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teapot (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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