How to Use potter in a Sentence

potter

noun

• The potter pulls the clay against the rotation of the wheel.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
• These vessels are built by the potter wasp to raise its young.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 17 June 2020
• It is said that the border on the plates helps identify the potter.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
• At the end of each episode, one potter is crowned the winter, while sadly one goes home.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• Visual artists, from painters to potters, buy booths to set up their wares.
  — Giana Han, al, 12 May 2020
• Traces of the potter’s hand can be seen at the uncoated bottom of a kintsugi tea bowl.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• One of his instructors was a potter, who clued him into the craft.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
• And there’s a process that helps potters produce more swiftly.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Interior The house was built in 1994 by a couple, a writer and a potter.
  — Fortune, 25 Apr. 2018
• Plus, the first 100 guests at the door at the reception will receive a free handmade cup by potter Dan Finnegan.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• The council voted last month to transfer control of the potter’s field.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• Lizzy’s dad, Bill (Judd Hirsch), is a sculptor too — a potter who found enough success to rub shoulders with the art world.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2022
• Shankin’s stoneware pieces, begun on a potter’s wheel, could have stepped out of a Morandi painting.
  — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• At its peak, hundreds of people were dying every day, and some had to be buried in a potter’s field.
  — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 12 June 2020
• For $275, there is a small teapot from a Danish potter who has supplied Noma.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2018
• Could a study of those fingerprints reveal the gender of those potters?
  — John Kantner, National Geographic, 3 June 2019
• Leaning over the bird feeder on her potter’s wheel, Ebarb echoed the sentiment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• The bodies of four were sent to the Anatomical Board, three of which were buried in the local potter’s field, but Hrdlicka kept the skeleton of the fourth, a 60-year-old Irish man.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• But this potter’s journey has sent him far from the housewares department and deep into the woods.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• Lasser said that avoiding speculation about the potter’s life is one goal of the new show.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2021
• Katz, also a potter, has sculptures which are classics in the garden.
  — Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 6 June 2018
• Brad Pitt — divorcé and amateur potter Brad Pitt — appears on screen for just a second in the first act of the movie.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 18 May 2018
• He’s held a lot of jobs over the years, including working as a grocery store cashier, a house painter, a potter and a landscaper.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The dead could be buried at potter’s fields like Washington Square, but the city forbade any tombstones to mark those interred there.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• His father worked in publishing; his mother was a renowned artist and potter.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Nelson has hand-thrown almost half a million vessels in his time as a potter — the equivalent of 600 tons of clay.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• The Montreal potter Benoit Daigle supplied the moss-green tableware.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• Dozens of such potter’s fields have been dug throughout southern Europe.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Radha, in turn, had guided little Pampa’s hands at the potter’s wheel.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Home potters from around the U.K. travel to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, for a competition to become top potter.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024