(n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) The diplomats told Washington that certain themes in American movies seemed to appeal to the Saudi audience: heroic honesty in the face of corruption (George Clooney in Michael Clayton), supportive behaviour in relationships (an unspecified drama that was repeated during an Eid holiday featuring an American husband dealing with a drunk wife who smashed cars and crockery when she wasn't assaulting him and their child), and respect for the law over self-interest (Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
(3) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(4) During their frequent and raging arguments, they threw so much crockery that we were able to make a giant mosaic in the garden from the shards.
(5) He cradles a black tea, wincing every time crockery crashes in the kitchen of the backstreet London cafe we're seated in.
(6) Suppliers of catering crockery have been the main gainers in recent years, because of a social shift to eating out.
(7) Smaller readings were also found in other items of Pine Bar crockery, after the radioactive teapot was put in the dishwasher.
(8) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
(9) It was a stern lecture, naturally, but nothing like the old days when a performance that feckless would have seen a wedding set's worth of crockery smashed against the dressing-room walls.
(10) It is possible that I have simply reached an age where royal commemorative crockery, like comfy chairs and estate agents' windows, has become genuinely appealing.
(11) When he came back to the kitchen, he found crockery floating around as if it were in a swimming pool.
(12) The total bacterial count per item for crockery and cutlery exceeded the desired limit by five to 6400 times, whilst the count for utensils was also exceeded by over 100 times in both years.
(13) She's notorious for being on the far side of sane – she's reputed to have thrown crockery at Lincoln – and for spending pots of money.
(14) His decorations are broken bottles, mostly 7-Up and Canada Dry green; old crockery collected for him by local children (when they weren't vandalising his work) and tiles.
(15) It is the beginning of the lunchtime rush; shouts, shattering crockery, steaming plates of carbonara spill out of the kitchen.
(16) Ninety-one percent knew there were no risks from touching and 80% no risks from sharing cutlery and crockery.
(17) Improvised memorials of stones, crockery and modest heirlooms are the only sign that these deserted tracts of land were once occupied by houses, shops and schools.
(18) On the ground, his influence can be seen in everything from compostable cutlery and crockery to hybrid campus shuttles and free staff commuter buses at the 39,000-employee global headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
(19) The human bones show clear signs of butchery, implying that the bodies were stripped for meat and crushed for marrow before the heads were severed and turned into crockery.
(20) In the mid-to-late 80s, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – not to mention David Cameron and his now chancellor George Osborne – were members of the notorious Bullingdon Club, the Oxford university "dining" clique that smashed their way through restaurant crockery, car windscreens and antique violins all over the city of knowledge.
Dresser
Definition:
(n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
(n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
(n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
(v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Example Sentences:
(1) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(2) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(3) I then worked for a brief while as a shop assistant, a dresser at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, and a receptionist at a family planning clinic.
(4) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(5) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(6) SMRs for the dressers and dyers were also low, but not as low as for the manufacturers.
(7) In 1996, a young Samantha Sheffield started working at Smythson as a window dresser.
(8) And back to work.” The BBC also confirmed The Dresser, a one-off drama directed by Sir Richard Eyre for BBC2 starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, and the return of Top of the Lake for a second series; casting details were not announced but the BBC said the story will be set in Sydney, Australia.
(9) In fact, Hall was a very eccentric dresser, who would go nowhere without a wide-brimmed fedora (who knew?
(10) However, because of the relatively small number of expected and observed deaths in the cohort and especially among the heavily exposed dressers and dyers, the confidence intervals around SMR estimates were wide and excess risks cannot be ruled out.
(11) It feels amazing that I'm actually going to show my work this time and not just be the dresser.
(12) When my boyfriend and I Chuckle-Brothered a heavy dresser over the threshold just under a year ago, I was filled with a sense of hope.
(13) When attention was restricted to the French Canadians in the cohort, the observed deaths were close to the expected; there was a noteworthy excess of colorectal cancer (four observed, 0.8 expected) for dressers and dyers.
(14) A delegate would have to possess the courage of a cross-dresser in Texas to oppose anything in this atmosphere.
(15) He was a genuine cross-dresser, an 18th-century transvestite.
(16) Denise Dresser (@DeniseDresserG) Peña Nieto invita.a Trump para: August 31, 2016 Translation: Peña Nieto invited Trump because: For Higa [a Mexican construction company] to build the wall To speak about hairstyles To tell him the good things To present his thesis At press time, getting Higa to build the wall had 49% of the more than 8,000 Twitter votes.
(17) Callahan's paper on paternalism and involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults, with comments by Rebecca Dresser, appeared in the August 1984 issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol.
(18) Fortunately, at least for the Downton set-dresser, there is of course an app for that.
(19) Support was not found for the prediction that the sex change group would have the worst present and past adjustment followed by the homosexual cross-dressers with the poorest past adjustment.
(20) There was a big difference between those classes which we didn’t know before.” 2014 : Flamboyant dressers in modern-day Kinshasa.