Porcelain

//ˈpɔːsəlɪn//

"Porcelain" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Nowadays, almost everyone has a modern bean-to-cup coffee maker, but we are still using a porcelain coffee filter.

Mary is a porcelain maker.

Last night I prayed to the porcelain god.

It's a mixture of ceramics, porcelain, stoneware, and earthenware.

Are these cups porcelain?

He wrote a book on porcelain.

The Imari porcelain plate that my father cherished was quite heavy.

Crockery is a term that refers to ceramic dishes in everyday use, as differentiated from fine porcelain.

This hand painted porcelain squirrel figurine is a family heirloom.

They say she's the owner of the largest collection of penguins in the land. Cuddly toys, porcelain figurines, pictures, books, postcards – it's all there. Only, she doesn't have an actual penguin yet.

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Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.

Any power rail needs to be well insulated from earth, to minimise current leakage, and so the two power rails on the Underground sit on curiously genteel and antique-looking porcelain pots.

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He set the table with our porcelain and stemware.

[...] that earthen or pliable matter commonly called porcellan, which is pure white,... wherof vessels of all kinds are very curiously framed...

The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.

In the kingdomes of Caiacan and Carazan, certaine sea shels are currant, which some men terme Porcelline.

We mett severall gangs of men to our greatest disadvantage, ffor we weare forced to sing, and those that came to see us gave porcelaine to those that most did us injury.

Those pretty spangled Toys [...] known by various names, as Porcelains, Hyacinths, Ermines, &c.

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