How to Use potter in a Sentence

potter

1 of 2 noun
  • These vessels are built by the potter wasp to raise its young.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 17 June 2020
  • Visual artists, from painters to potters, buy booths to set up their wares.
    — Giana Han, al, 12 May 2020
  • And there’s a process that helps potters produce more swiftly.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Work on a potter’s wheel, hand build and glaze pieces created from scratch.
    — Jessie Dax-Setkus, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026
  • At the end of each episode, one potter is crowned the winter, while sadly one goes home.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • It is said that the border on the plates helps identify the potter.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One of his instructors was a potter, who clued him into the craft.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
  • There are also plates and bowls made by potters in the city of Fayoum.
    — Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The dinner ware is made by potters and artisans from the area.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Painters, sculptors, potters, writers and people who just love the arts.
    — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • His father worked in publishing; his mother was a renowned artist and potter.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Could a study of those fingerprints reveal the gender of those potters?
    — John Kantner, National Geographic, 3 June 2019
  • The council voted last month to transfer control of the potter’s field.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Katz, also a potter, has sculptures which are classics in the garden.
    — Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 6 June 2018
  • Dozens of such potter’s fields have been dug throughout southern Europe.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • Lasser said that avoiding speculation about the potter’s life is one goal of the new show.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • Leaning over the bird feeder on her potter’s wheel, Ebarb echoed the sentiment.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Radha, in turn, had guided little Pampa’s hands at the potter’s wheel.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Dave was an accomplished artist, potter and marksman, as well as a faithful servant of God.
    — courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • As a potter, the man would obviously know about the history of pottery.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 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
  • Beside her booth was a couple of potters from Chillicothe who throw lovely bowls and mugs on a potter’s wheel.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • It’s located near Seagrove, an area renowned for its wild clay and as a haven for generations of potters.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This hub for connection and conversation is owned by a potter, who also happens to be the mayor, and his wife.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For $275, there is a small teapot from a Danish potter who has supplied Noma.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Come meet the artisans and delight in the demonstrations of centering clay and throwing a pot on a potter’s wheel.
    — courant.com, 3 Sep. 2021

potter

2 of 2 verb
  • Ammons, who could control the rate of his unrolling tape by slowing down his writing, liked to potter around.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Can the simple, tactile pleasure of pottering in the dirt or watching seedlings sprout comfort us at a time of loss and bewilderment?
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • There’s nothing better than a cold and crispy walk or a day of pottering through villages and independent shops, then settling in front of a crackling fire with a proper English roast dinner.
    — Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
  • These theories often involve high-end sports cars, swimming pools or pottering around the expensive parts of the Monopoly board, enjoying fine food and donning overpriced designer clothing.
    — SI.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Which brings us to Streep’s Mary Louise, a folksy enigma in greige cardigans and ferrety prosthetic teeth, who potters around Monterey making all her rudest inner observations out loud.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 June 2019

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