kiln

This high-temperature firing process works somewhat like baking clay in a kiln, causing the zirconia particles to fuse together and form a dense, hardened material.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

She didn’t realize, at the time, that porcelain, which is fired at well over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit in the kiln, is nearly indestructible to heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Wearing wooden clogs, Naresh Paswan uses a long iron bar to push fuel through dozens of fire holes that feed the kiln.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

True, such logs could be split to fit through the kiln openings, but this required extra work.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

The 200-year-old Denby Pottery fired its final pieces earlier this month before permanently blowing out its kilns.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

We also have the Iznik kilns in Turkey, which are still operating today, and influences into Southeast Asia, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026

Her sketches, which use styles employed in 18th-century architectural drawings, imagine converting vacant office space in the Financial District into fantastical giant kilns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

First she described the claybeds, making sure she got in everything she could remember, the wide ocher-colored washing pits, the dragline, the kilns like great brick beehives.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Then, last spring, she attracted attention by building a second house for herself, of rosy, freshly kilned brick, abutting the compound of Roshan, the village’s most powerful man.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016

His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman."

From Time Magazine Archive

The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It gave him a strange, off-kilter appearance, like a Parian bust that had slumped during kilning due to some internal imbalance.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros