Example sentences for: earthenware

How can you use “earthenware” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Amsterdam, his palette darkened; marble floors replaced earthenware tiles, satin supplanted homespun, and a dream--it cannot have been more than that for de Hooch--of luxury reigned.

  • The huge collection includes pre-Columbian earthenware figures, brilliant Italian Renaissance Majolica, more sedate but elegant Dutch and English Delftware of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Rococo forms of German Meissen porcelain.

  • The kitchen at the back of the house is filled with authentic pieces: earthenware jars for storage, copper cups for measuring, iron pots for cooking.

  • The cattle-grazed plains of the province of Camagüey hold little water, so long ago the citizens fashioned enormous earthenware pots to catch and store rainwater.

  • Walk to the north court where you enter the royal chambers — two giant píthoi (large earthenware pots) guard the entryway from the central court.


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