How to Use china in a Sentence

china

noun

• She uses her good china when she has company for dinner.
• If City Hall were a china shop, Hils would be the bull.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 28 July 2017
• This will not be not the plain white china to be found at Ikea.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Yet the Toreros are once again the bull in the conference’s china shop.
  — Mike Hiserman, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Make your china look just as great for years to come with these tips.
  — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
• Sip tea from fine china, and don’t forget to raise a pinky.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2018
• The effect is not of a bull in a china shop, or of peasants storming the Bastille.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
• The tables sit under white cloths, and the places are set with white china traced with gold.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• If being crude, rude and a bull in a china shop a crime, Trump would get the death penalty.
  — Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, 8 June 2017
• A large-scale buffet is the perfect place to store her china.
  — Mary Carol Garrity, kansascity.com, 17 June 2017
• Mark Ingram II is the proverbial bull loose in a china shop.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• There’s a 50-50 chance that this goes south,’’ with both Trump and Macron taking a dash at the alliance’s fine china.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The silk running shorts in china pink and blue looked cool, but so did slim trousers with cuffs that could be turned up.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 4 Oct. 2017
• This is not a figure of speech; some of the china was owned by Ms. Williams’s grandmother.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• But Lovren gets him back with a hand to the chest and kick to the shin, and Sterling falls like the world’s tiniest china cabinet.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• His clay sculptures line the china cabinet in the front room.
  — Lydia Woolever, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
• What happens to the set of heirloom china no one in the family wants?
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
• Beyond lie the Chugach Mountains, as white as fine china.
  — Harry Pearson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
• Diners ate on white linen tablecloths and trendy white and glass china.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• This china has been in their family for years, and her great-aunt wanted to send as a gift.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2018
• Like the of squeaking of Styrofoam, or a butter knife on a china plate.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 22 Jan. 2020
• That's the same narrative Trump has for himself -- a china-breaker who freaks out the squares.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 6 June 2018
• This is a president who likes to break china, and sometimes goes too far.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Haul out old china and put heirloom patterns back on the table.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• At the Woodside soiree, guests sipped from antique china tea cups and gazed out at a swimming pool, barns and acres of rolling green hills.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Cannifornian, 16 May 2017
• This does not look like a Peter Fitzgerald bull-in-a-china-shop routine.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• The fare is rightfully plated on china that serves as the canvas.
  — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2018
• And Ink Blue, which was inspired by ink on white china, is a softer take on Matte Black.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2017
• The items taken were stereo equipment and some antique china.
  — cleveland, 4 Mar. 2020
• Most of the ceramic pieces represent fancy servingware, like the fine china people today might bring out for guests.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 27 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024