(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.
Earthenware
Definition:
(n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In earthenware vessels from the Moche period (200-700 A.D.) pathological findings of nasal deformities have been depicted in a realistic manner.
(2) As she fills the earthenware pot, she counts herself lucky not to be in a refugee camp in neighbouring Niger Republic or among the 234 girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from a physics exam in GGSS Chibok and taken to the Sambisa Forest reserve , leaving their parents and an entire country distraught .
(3) In a very large soup pot (I typically use a 11.5 litre stainless-steel stock pot or a medium-large Mexican earthenware cazuela), heat the lard or oil over medium.
(4) The 19th century saw the introduction of the first coloured earthenware and the manufacture of bone china.
(5) The results of the analysis seem to suggest differences in blood levels by sex, zone of residence, hours of transportation and eating habits, such as the consumption of canned meals and the use of "earthenware dishes" in the preparation of meals.
(6) aegypti breeding habitats were ant traps, earthenware jars, bowls, tanks, tin cans, and drums, ant traps being the most common indoors and earthenware jars the most common out doors.
(7) Deposit plates, anodized aluminium, glazed earthenware plates, and polystyren, glass, "Tergal" cloth plates were used in 8 urban sites and 1 extra-urban site during 1 to 3 months.
(8) The craft production of earthenware recipients that have been inadequately glazed and their improper use as containers of drings of foods could be commoner than might be thought on the basis of the sporadic reporting of such cases of lead poisoning.
(9) The proportion of positive stored water samples was also lower with the use of different vessels for collection and storage, with storage inside the house, and with use of a storage container other than an earthenware pot.
(10) Storage using earthenware pots for six weeks resulted in significant losses of vitamin C. In general, traditional methods for processing, preservation and storage of vegetables cause significant losses of nutrients, an effect that could account for poor, nutritional status in Morogoro region (Tanzania).
(11) It bought the pottery manufacturer Denby for £30m in 2009 and continues to run it, adding earthenware firm Burleigh in 2010 and Somerset-based Poole Pottery in 2011.
(12) In the production of earthenware relatively high concentrations of dust occur only temporarily, but in very few cases they may cause silicosis.
(13) Caravaggio leapt up, hit him with an earthenware dish and drew his ever-ready sword, but one of his friends restrained him from killing the waiter.
(14) The most famous artist of the moment, Ai Weiwei, imprisoned and then released by the Chinese authorities, is another YBA-influenced figure with his huge studios in China, where a team of assistants follow his instructions delivered in mobile phone calls and occasional visits, and where scores of old Chinese earthenware vases half-dipped in random primary colours are arranged in large grids as installations.
(15) It was found that the decoction made by means of glassware, enamel and earthenware pots had the best effect of inhibiting the colony formation of human gastric carcinoma cells, the next were the decoctions made by means of unrefined iron pots, stainless steel pots and copper pots, and the worst was that made with aluminium pots.
(16) Two methods-chlorination of stored water and the use of a narrow-necked earthenware vessel (called a 'sorai') for storing the water-were found to be effective in reducing the transmission of infection among the family contacts of cholera patients.
(17) There are tombs and cloisters and bits of earthenware crockery which might have come from the kitchen of the Casa de Mar, rather than being dropped by a butter-fingered monk 700 years ago.
(18) He recalls dining in the south of France with his friend and mentor, the cookery writer Richard Olney, who served tripe that had been gently cooked for a day in an earthenware container.
(19) aegypti and Mesocyclops, both copepod species eliminated all immatures in earthenware pots by week 3.