Use "terra-cotta" in a sentence
terra-cotta example sentences
terra-cotta
1. Just as he'd said, above our heads in the corner, someone had made a chimney by fixing a terra-cotta jar into the corner of the ceiling and breaking away the base so the smoke could find its way outside
2. All the roofs were the same terra-cotta burnt
3. As always, though, the rest of the place looked immaculate, the paint in its shades of ivory and blush and terra-cotta gleaming
4. Terra-cotta vases, which later on would be a blaze of geraniums, Wemyss explained, stood at intervals on each side of the path
5. On the walls was a paper with a pale terra-cotta ground and a pattern consisting of large white roses with chocolate coloured leaves and stalks
6. He could not see her face but he could see the terra-cotta and salmon-pink panels of her skirt which the shadow made appear black and white
7. Its white walls and orange terra-cotta tile roofs gleamed in the sunlight
8. ' Did you have a very exhausting journey? They gave you tea? You are well? I have just made a somewhat audacious I purchase from Sonerscheins - a terra-cotta bull of the fifth century
9. HIGH ON THE CLIFFS above the Golden Gate Bridge, 20 El Camino del Mar was a stucco, Spanish-style home with an iron gate guarding the terra-cotta driveway
10. Then the town house with the terra-cotta roof exploded into flames
11. Well, we need as many modellers, who, either in architects’ offices, or in stone-cutters’ yards and terra-cotta works, shall be putting into tangible form the dreams and thoughts of the designer’s brain
12. And for those to whom scholarship is less attractive than action and production, there is sculpture in small and large, in stone, marble, terra-cotta, wax, clay, plaster, bronze, iron, lead, gold and silver; there is inlay of all material and styles, from square tiles to minute glass tesseræ; there is painting with all known vehicles and of all sorts; the whole to be devoted to the beautifying of buildings in which we have to live and work and rest
13. The floors are laid on terra-cotta arches, built on iron beams, and the beams are protected by terra-cotta casings
14. The roof of the building is to be covered with slate [preferably red], laid on terra-cotta and supported by iron trusses and beams; the iron-work to be protected by a fireproof covering