clay
Example Sentences
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Stoneware, from high-art jasperware works to the humble dining plates on our kitchen shelves, is always formed from clay then decorated using glazes and other materials.
The primary bedroom, with two closets, has a barrel-vaulted clay ceiling.
Many British railways are built on clay soil that shrinks in the summer as vegetation sucks out water, and expands in the winter.
From BBC
Destitute, he made his home in a pithos, or giant clay pot, using his cloak in place of a bed.
When I was acting in some projects, I felt like I was delivering a lump of clay that got sculpted by somebody else.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
