How to Use terra-cotta in a Sentence

terra-cotta

noun

• The owner of the hoard buried it in a terra-cotta pot, which served as a sort of piggy bank.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 1 May 2023
• The city’s terra-cotta rooftops and winding alleyways feel lifted from the pages of the play.
  — Becca Blond, AFAR Media, 10 Feb. 2025
• The rounded velvet sofa wraps around the length of the table and brings the terra-cotta shade from the bedroom into the space.
  — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
• Many of the walls, wardrobes and tables are painted light hues of sand, pink and terra-cotta to reflect the hues in the Portuguese landscape.
  — Lindsey Tramuta Roxanne Fequiere Luke Fortney Gisela Williams Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• The bricks in Toulouse have a unique, soft-reddish hue that casts a terra-cotta glow on everything around them.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
• Stay at the Mezzatore, a 16th-century terra-cotta jewel perched on the edge of the Gulf of Naples.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
• To achieve the popular look, Haim’s bedroom was layered with the same blush and terra-cotta hue on the walls and ceilings.
  — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
• The color adapts to the weather as the terra-cotta shifts from pale gray to dark brown depending on cloud cover and time of day.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2024
• The fit is also cut to flatter, and comes in a basic black, navy, forest green, or a terra-cotta brown.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
• The outside is faux-rustic, capped with terra-cotta roof tiles.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Bathrooms painted in terra-cotta brown could boost a home's sale price by $1,624.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 20 June 2023
• From the surrounding hills, its red-tinged peak appears to hover above a sea of terra-cotta rooftops.
  — Kin Woo Gisela Williams Amy Conway Kate Maxwell, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
• For Welch, go-to colors include pink, sage, and yellow, with accents of brown and terra-cotta.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024
• As for colors: Shades of sand, terra-cotta, off-white, or even soft metallics like pale gold are current favorites.
  — René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 11 June 2025
• The stone walls, terra-cotta floors, and wooden beams of medieval cottages have been preserved.
  — Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• The terra-cotta and small floral motif couldn’t look more suited to outdoor dining in a lemon grove.
  — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 12 Apr. 2025
• From cool gray to warm terra-cotta, neutral paint colors can transform any space.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2023
• The sunset colors of the house’s terra-cotta facade are as striking and ornate as ever.
  — Thao Thai, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
• Outside, in the verdant herb garden, local breads are baked en plein air each morning in terra-cotta ovens.
  — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2024
• Often paired with other earth tones like terra-cotta, orange, brown, and red, olive green is like a softer, warmer version of black.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
• Gaines also makes sure to use terra-cotta tiles that still feel semi-modern rather than dated.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 May 2025
• All the rain that touches the skyscraper’s terra-cotta and glass facade is transferred to a pair of giant concrete bathtubs and pumped to the cooling towers above.
  — Ben Ryder Howe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Terra-Cotta Orchid Pots Porous terra-cotta allows air and water to pass through the walls of these stone-like pots freely.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2024
• Like other citrus, lemons are prone to root rot and are easier to care for in a terra-cotta pot that can wick excess water off the soil, Fleming says.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
• In the bathroom are terra-cotta tiles and rainforest showers.
  — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 29 May 2025
• These were mixed by hand on-site by a local painter until the perfect palette was achieved—a rich cream that blended with the stone floors, and warm, earthy shades such as terra-cotta and Naples yellow.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 4 Aug. 2023
• Here, the cool blue kitchen backsplash complements the warm terra-cotta tiles underfoot.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
• The five rooms have terra-cotta or hardwood floors, exposed beams, and antique furniture.
  — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
• At this stage, Garner transfers the potatoes, which have turned a deep terra-cotta brown, into a greased baking dish and cooks at 350 degrees until warmed through.
  — Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2024
• My room—a villa, really—features the hotel-wide color scheme of white, terra-cotta, and green, with distinctive majolica plates adorning the wall and ceramic lamps from the nearby town of Grottaglie.
  — Nick Thompson, Air Mail, 28 June 2025