Example sentences for: teapot

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

  • The Met's and Boston Museum of Fine Arts' "John Singleton Copley in America" (at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Aug. 25) intersperses the art with colonial furniture, silver (including a Paul Revere teapot similar to the one in Copley's famous portrait), and costumed mannequins "suggesting the coherence of Copley's work in the cultural environment of pre-Revolutionary Boston and New York."

  • In the absence of other federal law enforcement agencies--there was no FBI until 1908--the service over time took on new jobs: combating the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which had sprung up in the Reconstruction South; conducting espionage during the Spanish-American War and World War I; investigating the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal; and helping to apprehend the gangster Al Capone for tax fraud.

  • Picturesque images are often captured in names, as in Bridal Veil Falls in Utah, or Teapot Dome in Wyoming.

  • Imagine if Herman Melville's seafaring adventure of 1851 had focused on the first America's Cup race that year, or if F. Scott Fitzgerald had implicated Gatsby in the Teapot Dome scandal.


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