tureen

Example Sentences

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A 10-foot canopy shaded guests, while the addition of a hot water tureen allowed people to make coffee, tea and instant cup noodles.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023

Perched sideways in space, held high by her partner like a tureen on a tray, Isabella Boylston gazed merrily into the audience of American Ballet Theatre’s “Don Quixote.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

The kitchen table was laid with homemade bread, butter, jam, a tureen of dried lamb tallow, and a haunch of fermented lamb.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge has a delightful 19th-century Portuguese creamware tureen in the shape of a life-size duck that would have graced a table along with other porcelain animals and figurines.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016

And she returned most of the beans to the tureen and gave it to the person next to Mrs. Mole and led Mrs. Mole off.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath