Pottery is an English word with synonyms like trade or craft. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pottery in a sentence
Pottery meaning
- Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
- A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
- The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
Using Pottery
- The main meaning on this page is: Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed. | A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made. | The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
- Useful related words include: clayware, ceramic ware, trade, craft.
- In the example corpus, pottery often appears in combinations such as: pottery and, of pottery, the pottery.
Context around Pottery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pottery
- In this selection, "pottery" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, painting, edgefield, learn, neolithic, painting and wheel stand out and add context to how "pottery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abbasid dynasty pottery was a and and numerous pottery vessels. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pottery" sits close to words such as daddy, disproportionately and evangelical, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pottery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An updated version of Pottery Barn's viral Gus the Ghost pillow, this decor comes bearing gifts. (17 words)
While initially focused solely on creating her pottery, Soliezuo said she realised the need for pottery instruction in Nagaland. (19 words)
This period has been further divided into PNA (Pottery Neolithic A) and PNB (Pottery Neolithic B) at some sites. (19 words)
Wheeler's proposed project had been to analyse Romano-Rhenish pottery, and with the grant he funded a trip to the Rhineland in Germany, there studying the Roman pottery housed in local museums; his research into this subject was never published. (41 words)
There will also be drawings of chance for $5 each or 5 for $20 for great prizes including a Dennis Goodman photo, Tom Breckenridge painting, a Sweet Things package with Norman Love Chocolates, Pottery collection from Beach Pottery and more. (40 words)
Jeulmun or Comb-pattern Pottery is found after 7000 BC, and pottery with comb-patterns over the whole vessel is found concentrated at sites in west-central Korea, where a number of settlements such as Amsa-dong existed. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
They have pottery painting, canvas painting, pottery wheel throwing, stoneware, clay making, glass fusing, mosaics, glow in the dark painting pottery or canvas, and they have unique gifts and art for home accents.
Pottery also refers to the art or craft of a potter or the manufacture of pottery. citation 'An Introduction To The Technology Of Pottery. 2nd edition.
Adding David Drake’s name to this unsolved mystery amplifies interest, as much as Drake’s signature increases value to his pottery—value to his surviving pots alone and to Old Edgefield Pottery as a whole.
The kids were first able to learn pottery at Hesitation Point Pottery off State Road 46, just east of Nashville.
While initially focused solely on creating her pottery, Soliezuo said she realised the need for pottery instruction in Nagaland.
Get creative in Cleveland at Colour My Pot, a paint your own pottery place where you pick the pottery, paint it and collect it once it has been fired in the kiln.
A few months later in 1992, she packed up her life and took a pottery apprenticeship making $4 an hour at Walt Glass Pottery in McQueeney, Texas.
There will also be drawings of chance for $5 each or 5 for $20 for great prizes including a Dennis Goodman photo, Tom Breckenridge painting, a Sweet Things package with Norman Love Chocolates, Pottery collection from Beach Pottery and more.
Athenian black-figure pottery was exported in increasing quantities and good quality throughout the Aegean between 600 BC and 560 BC, a success story that coincided with a decline in trade in Corinthian pottery.
Bowl with Kufic Inscription, 9th century Brooklyn Museum Pottery Whereas painting and architecture were not areas of strength for the Abbasid dynasty, pottery was a different story.
But if the pottery is genuine, researchers say it should show some similarities to Harappan pottery, which is typically red and black and stamped with seals.
Early Filipinos started making pottery before their Cambodian neighbors and at about the same time as the Thais as part of what appears to be a widespread Ice Age development of pottery technology.
Inspired by the imported pottery from the eastern Mediterranean, in about 6000 BC they created the first pottery to be made in France.
Jeulmun or Comb-pattern Pottery is found after 7000 BC, and pottery with comb-patterns over the whole vessel is found concentrated at sites in west-central Korea, where a number of settlements such as Amsa-dong existed.
Since the earliest uses of pottery wheels to help shape clay vessels, pottery has had a strong relationship to symmetry.
This period has been further divided into PNA (Pottery Neolithic A) and PNB (Pottery Neolithic B) at some sites.
This settlement dominated the pottery trade in what is now central southern England, and pottery was distributed by boats on the Thames and its tributaries.
Wheeler's proposed project had been to analyse Romano-Rhenish pottery, and with the grant he funded a trip to the Rhineland in Germany, there studying the Roman pottery housed in local museums; his research into this subject was never published.
Among the structures uncovered in the village were three Mikvehs, coins from the time of the Great Revolt, adorned oil lamps with traditional Jewish decorations, and numerous pottery vessels.
An updated version of Pottery Barn's viral Gus the Ghost pillow, this decor comes bearing gifts.
Common combinations with pottery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pottery and 23×
- of pottery 20×
- the pottery 15×
- pottery in 9×
- pottery is 9×
- and pottery 8×
- from pottery 8×
- pottery was 7×
- pottery barn 7×
- pottery painting 6×