How to Use teacup in a Sentence

teacup

noun

• And then there’s the sweet beige rubble to swirl out of the bottom of the teacup.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• Dormouse pops in and out of the teacup throughout the ride.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• IMHO, the fuss over the Opener malware is a storm in a teacup.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2004
• And then raised the teacup to my lips to keep from blubbering.
  — Alice McDermott, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• For ease and eclectic style, mix your teacups and teapots.
  — Bethany Lyttle, Country Living, 24 Mar. 2017
• His typescripts and teacups were sacralized, like the Shroud of Turin.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
• Frau Hermann called from the kitchen amid a rattling of teacups and plates.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• Mix our version of The Sunken Place in a teacup for full effect.
  — AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The woman carried her teacup to the bathtub, ran a bath.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• And your teacup chihuahua is out of luck: The GO is rated for dogs over 20 lbs.
  — Geoff Nudelman, WSJ, 19 May 2021
• To a large extent, this is merely a tempest in a teacup.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• There’s a basketball on the inside of the teacup, for instance.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The same effect is seen in the difference in size between the teacup on the table and Biden's hand.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• There’s even the option to add a subwoofer for those who like to hear their teacups rattle.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Bonus: add little hooks beneath a shelf to hold teacups!
  — Sarah Shelton, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
• Gone are the days — more or less — of dressing-room scraps or managers hurling teacups at the wall.
  — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
• Raffle prizes, teacup raffle and course contests add to the day.
  — courant.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• This laidback beat is sweet like sugar in your teacup, too.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
• Starting with a cocoon in a teacup, Bombyx mori is a moth that can no longer fly.
  — Barrett Klein, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
• The pot looks suspiciously like Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast, and one of the teacups even appears to have a small chip.
  — Jelani Addams Rosa, Seventeen, 15 Dec. 2017
• My neighbor would send me two tablespoons of food in a teacup.
  — TIME.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Fill each teacup with soaked floral foam and add in small blooms, like grape hyacinth or lily of the valley.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
• But no one need doubt that the teacup ride will function as advertised.
  — David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Carl: Like an item—a rocking chair, a teacup, a candlestick.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• As of last year Gracie is the proud dog mommy of a teacup Pomeranian named Yeti.
  — Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
• Find instructions here, and thrift stylish vessels like jars, teacups, and copper bowls.
  — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 11 Jan. 2026
• Every eyeful was a universe, a cosmos squeezed into a teacup.
  — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
• Keep small pets like cats and teacup-sized dogs safely indoors at night.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
• Each galaxy is like a spinning teacup, but the whole platform – the cosmic filament — is rotating too.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
• All things mini, from charcuterie boards to teacup-sized tambourines, are trending.
  — Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025