crockery

Example Sentences

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Through a hole in the wall of one house, some crockery had remained impossibly upright on a shelf - while everything else around lay shattered or burned.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

Nevertheless, some family possessions survive and are exhibited here: a lovely walnut writing desk used by Otto Frank, table linens with family initials, colorful crockery, a precious photo album.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2025

Only reusable cups and crockery are available to use.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024

The music, in this case, arises not from a conventional score, but rather from the diegetic accompaniments of soup bubbling in a pot, butter sizzling in a pan and utensils scraping against crockery.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

She suspected that these days, even the innocent and the round-eyed could be crockery crooks, or cream-bun cravers, or thieving diabetics cruising Ayemenem for imported insulin.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy