as in ceramics
articles made of baked clay
we picked up some ceramic vases in a pottery store
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Peruse prehistoric pottery at the Geronimo Springs Museum, also home to an authentic miner’s cabin and an exhibit on the Camino Real.
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Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
East Fork, the brand known for turning pasta bowls into works of art, uses its pottery to uphold a high standard of craftsmanship and technique—every piece of pottery feels thoughtfully made.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
Pictures show multiple figurines with human face shapes, along with scattered artifacts, including jugs and pottery fragments.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
From an exploding pottery shed to eco-yurts on a beach resort that Lomofsky and her team constructed truly out of nothing but a mud field, the production designer had a lot of logistics to manage in her builds.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
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Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
East Fork, the brand known for turning pasta bowls into works of art, uses its pottery to uphold a high standard of craftsmanship and technique—every piece of pottery feels thoughtfully made.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
Pictures show multiple figurines with human face shapes, along with scattered artifacts, including jugs and pottery fragments.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
From an exploding pottery shed to eco-yurts on a beach resort that Lomofsky and her team constructed truly out of nothing but a mud field, the production designer had a lot of logistics to manage in her builds.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for pottery
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“Pottery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pottery. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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