Clay

//kleɪ//

"Clay" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Tom worked the clay into a vase.

Now, just let the clay slide between your fingers.

The heat of the sun hardens clay.

Clay is the essential ingredient in making pottery.

He fashioned an elegant pot out of clay.

He made a little statue out of soft clay.

He shaped the statue from clay.

He formed the clay into a bowl.

He hardened clay by putting it into a fire.

Bricks consist mostly of clay.

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Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]

The French Open is played on clay.

From clay we are made.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.

We went shooting clays at the weekend.

Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.

1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.

The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.

When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.

The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".

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