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Examples of pottery in a Sentence
He has collected pottery for years.
She was a painter for years before she discovered pottery.
Recent Examples of pottery from the Web
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One of the largest Renaissance festivals in the U.S. continues through April 1 with jousting, giant turkey legs, roaming royalty and a huge marketplace selling candles, pottery and sculptures.
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Can canines smell the difference between pottery pieces that have sat in a museum for years and those that are recently excavated—and thus more likely to have been looted from an archaeological site?
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This theory helped account for the kinds of languages spoken in the Pacific, the agriculture, and styles of pottery, as well as the mix of East Asian and New Guinea DNA found in the islanders.
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The March 16-18 sale will include furniture, pottery and glassware, postcards, jewelry, dolls, quilts and more.
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At first, everything’s lovingly quirky — Bear smoking his pipe in the cramped studio, roughhousing with Pinch; Natalie neglecting her pottery to accommodate Bear’s manic fits of creativity.
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Helena Saenz was an artist in her own right who exhibited and sold her award-winning pottery pieces at local galleries and art shows through the 1960s.
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By the 1930s, toy companies were producing hobbycraft kits by the thousands; magazines promoted activities like furniture and carpentry for men, knitting and sewing for women, and beading and pottery for kids.
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The girls of Staffordshire were the women who worked in the pottery and decorated the ware.
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First Known Use of pottery
15th century
pottery Synonyms
Synonyms
POTTERY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pottery for English Language Learners
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: objects (such as bowls, plates, etc.) that are made out of clay usually by hand and then baked at high temperatures so that they become hard
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: the art or activity of making objects out of clay
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: a place where potters make objects out of clay
POTTERY Defined for Kids
Definition of pottery for Students
plural potteries
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: the art or craft of making objects (as dishes and vases) out of clay
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: objects made from clay that is shaped while moist and hardened by heat
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