vase

Example Sentences

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In fact, it goes back at least 2,500 years: An ancient vase in the Louvre carries a notice that reads, “Buy me and you’ll get a bargain.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The video also showed Kim presenting Lukashenko with a large mosaic vase bearing a portrait of the Belarusian, with the North Korean leader appearing to explain that crafting it involved around 30 seashells.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Picking wildflowers and putting them in a vase.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

In another, the artist sits in a rocking chair in a home beside a vase of dead flowers — but her body is transparent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

I wave to the security guard, who peers at me suspiciously as I rip the balloon off the vase, struggling to catch my breath, my lungs protesting all this running.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott