Example sentences for: teacup

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

  • A party spokesman told the Times the flap was a "storm in a teacup ...

  • The Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who spent three years on Princess Mononoke and is reported to have done 70 percent of its paintings himself, seems to work from the outside in: to begin with the curve of the earth, then the mossy hills, the watercolor foliage, the nubby stones, the whorls on the wood, the meticulous carvings on a teacup.

  • Such heavy-handed conceptual humor is a far cry from Duchamp's mercurial wit, or from the visceral delight of Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936), the famous fur-lined teacup.


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