Example sentences for: pottery

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

  • Neolithic peoples arrived on the scene in the fourth millennium b.c., leaving behind signs of early attempts at agriculture and fragments of their pottery.

  • Portugal’s largest and finest Roman ruins lie 17 km (10 miles) south of Coimbra, at Conimbriga, close to the pottery town of Condeixa-a-Nova.

  • Primitive pottery is on display — including a rather naïve clay bull with an acrobat holding one horn — and finer work such as a stone pyxis (jewelry box) incised with geometric patterns and a reclining animal.

  • Pottery intricately painted with marine life, bronze figurines, and exquisite jewels — many of these were discovered in the rock cut tombs of Palace Period — yet it is the mundane and simple things which make Knossós so fascinating.

  • A little farther on lies the Casa de los Árabes (Calle Oficios, 12), a Moorish-style 17th-century building that now comprises a bazaar piled high with carpets, robes, and pottery; Havana’s only place of worship for Muslims; and a lovely restaurant tucked away in the courtyard.


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