How to Use amphora in a Sentence

amphora

noun

• The pots, distant relatives to amphoras and urns, stand on the floor and reach to the viewer’s ribs and higher.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• About a week of skin contact in stainless steel, then aged in clay amphora.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The team also found an amphora leaning against a wall and a number of vessels, bowls and jugs.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 16 May 2023
• Both pieces in New York are Greek ceramic vessels: an amphora and a kylix.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Each amphora only holds 90 gallons of wine, so your best bet to find this clay-aged wine is at Troon’s tasting room or wine bar.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2021
• And it is made in the ancient way: The grapes, indigenous to Georgia, are fermented in qvevri, clay amphora-like vessels lined with beeswax and buried in the earth.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• The wines are produced naturally and fermented on the skins, and some are aged in rare amphora pots.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• This Greek amphora was given to David for keeping his room the tidiest of all his brothers.
  — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018
• Book a tasting of amphora wines at the bar, then stay for a bite of buttery presunto ham made from Alentajano black pigs.
  — Laura Giannatempo, CNT, 21 July 2017
• The signature amphora shape is the same but now those golden bracelets around the neck have been heated into dripping metal.
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 15 Aug. 2023
• The ship’s cargo includes at least four different types of amphora, or ancient jars, as well as fine ceramics.
  — Fox News, 9 Nov. 2019
• Then take a tour of the four-level winery, built into the hillside, to see the clay amphoras, crafted according to traditional techniques in Georgia, filled with thousands of liters of wine and buried in the earth.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2019
• Complemented by a classical amphora-like vase, these billowing blooms are the archetype for floral pageantry, if there could be just one.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 16 Dec. 2022
• For example, millions of ancient vessels called amphoras were found in a mountainous pile at Monte Testaccio in Rome.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• The museum will return both the fish plate and the amphora to the Italian government, with an official ceremony to come at a later date, per ANU’s statement.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• The scent is housed in the same signature amphora as the original—only the unmistakeable golden rings that accent the neck have been updated to look like dripping metal.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
• The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• On a quiet street in a quiet town, locals gather at Adega Velha for Alentejano homecooking and amphora-aged house wine.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
• For years, these farmers have been manually destemming, crushing and fermenting the grapes in open top vessels, then aging them in cellars within clay amphora, a type of two-arm, narrow neck vessel.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• The inscription is thought to be the first literary quotation found on an amphora, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• Back in 2012, the archaeologists uncovered what was believed to be the home of a perfume merchant, which included an area for manufacturing some sort of liquid as well as amphora and glass bottles with residue in them.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
• Prior to the industrial revolution, wine was shipped in amphora (ancient times) and then barrels (more recently) and was bottled by wine merchants rather than wineries.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2023
• The ideal accompaniment to this Georgian bean stew would naturally be a Georgian wine, preferably made in the traditional manner, fermented and aged in a qvevri, like an amphora.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• Some amphorae may have already been looted — they are not infrequently seen decorating restaurants along the Albanian coastline.
  — Llazar Semini, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Both burial chambers also held ancient treasures, including figurines, clay pots, false amphoras (jugs) and narrow-leaved basins, as well as other small artifacts such as buttons, the Ministry reported yesterday (Aug. 11).
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2019
• Along with these riches, the site also revealed evidence of funerary rituals: Researchers found a Roman jar called an amphora that probably held wine to be consumed by funeral attendees.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024