How to Use kiln in a Sentence

kiln

noun

• Along with pottery, the team has excavated kilns, as well as clues that workers in the city smelted iron ores, Frachetti says.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
• There isn’t much time for the raw clay to harden in the kiln.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Most of them were built, dried, glazed, then fired in a kiln.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
• Thus, the kiln gun, which fired a monstrous charge of No.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
• Some of these places only fire up the kiln once a year.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2018
• The kiln, which can fit on the back of a small trailer, weighs more than 1,500 pounds.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• Both young and old use the art room's kiln to bake pottery.
  — Maria Carter, Woman's Day, 15 Oct. 2015
• The milled wood is air dried for at least a year, and then dried in a kiln for a few weeks to kill the bugs.
  — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• But even with the kiln, Mr. Zakharchuk needed the know-how.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• Of course, there's always the chance that a piece might not make it out of the kiln intact.
  — Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• I was stationed on one side of the kiln that had a round opening the size of two fists.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 21 July 2017
• Fresh wood is stacked to dry, or put in a kiln if there’s a rush order.
  — Deborah Storey | For Al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2019
• Many were artists from the Kent area, who, once a year, use Brown’s anagama kiln.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• The soft clay then has to be fired, which might require a trip to your local kiln.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2018
• The school also has an art room that comes with a full kiln for pottery projects.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• And unlike a cement kiln that has to run all the time and stay hot, this process could run when the wind blows and the sun shines.
  — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
• Beauty nerds know that clay ain't just for pre-schoolers or the kiln.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 12 July 2017
• And each kiln process varies as much as the works born from every unique firing.
  — Ryan Dyer, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• In the wood kiln, our palette was limited to browns and dark greens.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2018
• The brick kiln, for instance, is rumored to be built on the site of a mass grave, as though it were fueled by the lives of the poor.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024
• Visitors can watch how pots are fired in Raku kilns and then buy and glaze a pot for $10.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Made of clay and sand, and fired in a kiln, bricks have been used to construct durable buildings for more than 7,000 years.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• Qualley sent her mug off to the kiln and prepared for the bike ride back to her apartment, in the East Village.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The transportation of the kiln took from Wednesday to Monday.
  — Ashley Savage, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2023
• Burn biomass or waste to heat the kiln instead of fossil fuel.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• An art studio, complete with kiln, has taken shape in what was the garage over the past few years.
  — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
• To make the Egg, the shape is set using a plaster mold, after which it’s cleaned, fired in a kiln, waxed and glazed — and fired again.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• That’s true of the musical guests, many of whom found fame online and aren’t kiln-fired in the glare of camera lights.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Traditionally, heating limestone in a kiln to produce lime results in 1 lb of CO2 emitted for every lb of cement produced.
  — New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024