EARTHENWARE in a Sentence

Learn EARTHENWARE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for EARTHENWARE, such as:

1. The tea was ladled out from the cans with a long tin spoon and poured into the earthenware mugs.
2. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.
3. As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of EARTHENWARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
earthenware
 n.  ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat
Classic Sentence:
1  His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
3  As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
4  In the left hand corner, a square earthenware stove, a perfect tower of colored pottery, rises nearly to the ceiling and guarantees plenty of warmth.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence:
1  The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware vessels except the shard he had brought back from the expedition.
2  Nearly all ancient, medieval, Middle Eastern, and European painted ceramics are earthenware, as is a great deal of contemporary household dinnerware.
3  The tea was ladled out from the cans with a long tin spoon and poured into the earthenware mugs.