Example sentences for: receptacle

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

  • The hunters lured the moose with a birchbark “horn” imitating the female call, and if that didn’t work, they poured water from a birchbark receptacle into a pond to reproduce the sound of the female urinating.

  • The receptacle for your disposable income.

  • The word might also have been used for a receptacle near the guns where powder and balls were kept.

  • However, this receptacle would have taken the form of a wooden box or something similar.

  • DC - ray florets pistillate and fertile; disk florets perfect and fertile; receptacle hairy; (3) Seriphidium (Besser) Besser - ray florets absent; disk florets perfect and fertile; receptacle glabrous; and (4) Dracunculus Besser - ray florets pistillate and fertile; disk florets functionally staminate; receptacle glabrous.


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