(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.
Rockery
Definition:
(n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week a farmer sent me photos of his neighbours' fields where "the soil is so eroded it is like a rockery.
(2) It had front and back gardens with a swing, rose bushes, a rockery of glittery stone and alpine plants, a garage, and an outside coal-shed.
(3) Polymorphism for the number of the blood proteins (transferrin, alkaline phosphatase, haptoglobin, plasma esterase and erythrocyte esterase) have been exposed by means of starch gel electrophoresis of northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus from three regions: Pelagic of Commander Islands (n = 164), Rockery of Robben Island (Sakhalin population, n = 308), winter todder region to the east of Honshu Island (n = 110).
(4) This could all end up as rockeries.” Richard Long: Boyhood Line, opens on Saturday, 20 June at The Downs, Bristol, and is followed by Richard Long: Time and Space, Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, 31 July–15 November 2015, free.