How to Use crockery in a Sentence
crockery
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According to Lois, in the 1890s the store sold dry goods, crockery, hats, etc.
—cleveland, 6 June 2021
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The cakes were stored in airtight crockery to mature for weeks.
—Cassandra King, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023
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Herron cleared away the coffee crockery and came back from the kitchen with a handful of treats for the kittens.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
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On the other side is a set of crockery by Christofle of Paris matched to salt and pepper grinders, all engraved with the car’s name.
—Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 27 May 2021
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There will be a lot of broken crockery when the enforcement gang comes to town.
—Philip Demuth, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
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Does your Nordic crockery have a lovely dove-gray and pink color scheme?
—Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 11 Jan. 2017
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Does your Nordic crockery have a lovely dove-gray and pink color scheme?
—Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 11 Jan. 2017
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The right channel shows an inner room with a cupboard filled with blue-and-white Delft-like crockery.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
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All of it has come crashing down, and now there are also more plates falling from the sky, like crockery-hail.
—S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 20 Apr. 2020
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Place the carrots, lemon slices and capers together in a large crockery or glass bowl.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2017
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Yet the crockery-breaking leader has shown signs of evolving.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
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The kitchen is fully furnished with utensils and crockery.
—Kristi Eaton, Chron, 21 Oct. 2021
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Just as the three brothers share a bedroom, so too do the three women: the china room of the title, so-called because of the crockery on the walls, part of Mai’s dowry.
—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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The blue and white crockery showcased on this kitchen island stay in tune with the room's color scheme for a cohesive look.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
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Not gold doubloons, but old rum bottles and crockery that workers would come across.
—Jonathan Levin, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
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The team kept its retro color palette and furniture, but dressed the restaurant with crockery, signage, menus, and decor.
—Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 14 June 2018
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Fish bones, fruit peels and oyster shells all feature in the crockery, which is intended to be used as servingware in the same restaurant.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
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Guests are served alfresco at a plain table dressed up with vintage crockery.
—David A. Keeps, ELLE Decor, 24 July 2012
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Levin recalls having seen his sister-in-law scolding her children for messing around with the food and crockery.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 16 May 2021
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The crockery is specially chosen to complement the dish.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
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There are still do not disturb signs, menus, folders of guest information, time sheets, crockery, and all sorts of other things among the debris.
—Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
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There are still do not disturb signs, menus, folders of guest information, time sheets, crockery, and all sorts of other things among the debris.
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
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People in period costumes dance to the swing music filling the air, while others shop for old-fashioned crockery and clothes.
—Bryony Jones, CNN, 7 June 2017
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For a scene in which shelves of dishes collapse, multiple actors kept out of the audience’s view pull cords to create the crashing crockery.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
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These early skull-cups were the forerunners of a long tradition of cranial crockery that continues to this day.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
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Jon Bannenberg liked to design the cutlery and crockery, flower vases, the light fittings and door handles.
—Peter Wilson, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
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In some cemeteries, the dead were honored with piles of old broken crockery or glassware, symbolizing the idea that things broken in this world are mended in the next.
—Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
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Image In Fayetteville, Ark., this March, volunteers were on their way to set up an apartment, cars loaded with linens, lamps, crockery and canned food, when they were abruptly told to turn around.
—Liz Robbins, New York Times, 16 May 2018
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It was overrun by bandits just before Geralt cleared them out, but the village now maintains a healthy trade route for its magical urns and crockery.
—Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
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The national campaign to get President Obama to emote, throw crockery at oil executives and jump up and down in fury has failed.
—Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2010
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