How to Use amphora in a Sentence

amphora

noun
  • This Trepat spent 8 months in amphora.
    — Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Octagono Blanco All wines from Octagono spend time buried in artisanal clay amphoras.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 June 2026
  • Long macerations are less common, and concrete and amphora are used more often to energise texture.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Commissions include jugs in the form of ancient amphora and rattan lights paying homage to the region’s culture of basket weaving.
    — Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • An amphora is a type of container vessel with a pointed bottom and characteristic form that dates back to prehistoric times.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Gaga wore a blue minidress tailored by Ashley Eva Brock, featuring an amphora line and leaf embroidery.
    — Renan Botelho, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Orlando said it was already known that wine was traded at the time by the Greeks and the Etruscans, because of wine jugs called amphora that lasted through the centuries.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In oak barrels, concrete tanks, or amphora, the wine is aged for up to several years to develop a creamy, buttery texture almost unparalleled by any other white wine.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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 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
  • In the nearby museum were 13 little amphoras, used to measure out the precise dosage of hemlock solution to execute such prisoners.
    — Sarah Manguso, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
  • Some of the works recall ancient amphora, others are objects that emanate a certain ancient power as if used once for ritual or commemorative reasons.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • Sonar revealed ancient relics along the sea floor, including a series of colossal structures standing 20 feet high and arranged in rows, as well as several anchors and amphora.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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 result is a warm, bold, addictive fragrance that drips with sensuality and femininity, down to the curves of its signature gold and glass figure-eight amphora.
    — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The wine was aged in 60 percent new French oak, 39 percent neutral older barrels, and 1 percent terra-cotta amphora.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Even more special, one of our trip-goers designed the tattoo, an amphora decorated with Blackjack the pegasus and the signature squiggle from the chapters.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 17 June 2026

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