How to Use cutlery in a Sentence

cutlery

noun
  • Rise and dry the cutlery by hand.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Alessi makes kids’ cutlery too.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026
  • There's even a zip pocket for your cutlery!
    — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Nice day for a cutlery wedding!
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 June 2026
  • There was a line of goods for the home including cutlery and chairs.
    — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Give your party some glitz and glam with gold plastic cutlery.
    — Tanya Edwards, CNN Underscored, 23 June 2020
  • Forks and spoons should be placed handle down in the cutlery holder.
    — Emma Soren, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Your cutlery looks worn or discolored, or feels rough to the touch.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The metal cutlery can be reused many times, which is cost-saving.
    — Heloise, Washington Post, 22 June 2020
  • There's arguably no greater advance in the world of cutlery than the spork.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • Again, the first piece of cutlery used should be placed on the farthest outside.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The tiered design has both a basket for your dish soap and sponges and one for cutlery.
    — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
  • One aspect of hosting a large meal that can get overlooked is the cutlery.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
  • For each meal, her mother set out a pair of chopsticks and also cutlery.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • New cutlery constantly grew in their jaws to push old or broken teeth out of the way.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
  • No single-use plastic cutlery or glassware is used on our site.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2026
  • An aqua tone is everywhere, from the cutlery handles to the soap dish.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • It can be made with your everyday cutlery and little hands.
    — Anna Price Olson, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Everything from the plates and cups to the cutlery and bags is biodegradable.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2019
  • All the cutlery and glasses gently rattled as the ship moved.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The clip saw Piper take a closer look at the glass straws in her cutlery drawer.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Guests aren’t given cutlery, so every dish has to be easy to pick up with fingers.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The table is set, the cutlery is laid out, but not all the guests are secure in their place on the food chain.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This is the set for foodies and home chefs whose cutlery needs to not only play the part but look the part as well.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 16 May 2022
  • The plant manager said he was fed up and promised to take away cutlery from the break room if the thefts did not stop.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2024
  • Prince William couldn't help but make fun of his wife as she was handed the oversized cutlery.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Extra plates and cutlery have been added to the kitchen stockpile and a few other tweaks were made for guests.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Emmanuel used a metal hook attached to his arm to handle the cutlery and food.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2017
  • Or does the diner use cutlery to slide the chicken off the skewer and proceed with a knife and fork?
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a cutting board, mini hot plate, a set of cutlery, a single pot and pan, as well as a dish rack.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 6 July 2018

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