How to Use tureen in a Sentence

tureen

noun
  • Did my girl just pour a tureen of something red and splotchy on her head?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 July 2022
  • Servers wheeled in a large silver tureen filled with steaming-hot broth.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This is a tureen not too precious to use but fancy enough to impress.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The best soup tureens are vessels worthy of your favorite soups, chilis, and stews.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The delegates would have started with tureens of soup set at both ends of the table.
    — Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • We are beguiled by the bench, wowed by the tureen, amused by the bedspread, and piqued by the wall label.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • Peggy fell in love with the pair of fish tureens David bought for her as a Christmas present.
    — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018
  • All that is left is the art—the Aubusson tapestries, the Sèvres tureens.
    — James McAuley, Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Both come out in large tureens with metal ladles, though that’s where the similarities end.
    — Lillian Li, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
  • The floral pattern on a Limoges soup tureen vied with a Pollock drip painting on a wall above it.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • The floral pattern on a Limoges soup tureen vies with a Pollock drip painting on a wall above it.
    — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • My Regency-era china cabinet, next to luncheon plates and a soup tureen?
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Two Chelsea-porcelain plaice tureens, covers, and spoons, circa 1755.
    — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Parsons is also grateful to have found an ironstone soup tureen when cleaning out her late grandmother’s attic.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 8 July 2024
  • In decades past, most dinner party tables would be set in matching motif applied to everything from soup tureens to dessert plates.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • That means that a dinner table without soup tureens and trifle dishes does not have to become a reality.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The centerpiece is a tureen of the thick bean soup bissara, a regional breakfast staple that’s drizzled with local olive oil.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2024
  • There were rows of silver tureens, dark wood walls, high chandeliers, and beautiful Old World tableware.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • Pair curvy pewter and ironstone or ceramic tureens with leggy candlesticks and tiny gourds (which happen to make sweet bottle stoppers).
    — Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Half of a massive fruit — also known as ash gourd and grown for the restaurant by a family member of one of the owners — arrives with pageantry in a silver tureen.
    — Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And it was tied to a spell that Agatha had taught her early in the series, where a gravy tureen had shattered, and Agatha taught her this very basic binding spell.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
  • Beyond their functionality, tureens are true collectibles.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Advertisement The current menu begins with an oblong ceramic tureen of sorts that suggests a wide-open oyster shell.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • As dramatic lights flash, Ogata dips his head into the tureen—and jerks back immediately, grimacing in pain.
    — Joel Warner, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2012
  • Our biggest problem was table space, with copper tureens, silver tins, plates, beer bottles and water glasses moved like jigsaw puzzle pieces as new courses arrived.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 13 June 2019
  • This tureen even comes with a matching platter, perfect for countertop displays or credenza decoration.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Their line, Gohar (Old) World, sells vintage pieces like butter curlers, tureens, and egg cups, which Gohar likes to mix in with more modern designs.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2024
  • The seafood tower comes shortly thereafter, an arrangement of crab claws and oysters on a mountain of crushed ice, topped by a basin of dry ice, which drifts out from below a tureen of Dungeness crabmeat.
    — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The tureen collection moved in 1996 to Winterthur, a museum in Delaware.
    — Jim Walsh, (cherry Hill, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Rather than having servants deliver one course at a time, the long dining tables were set with piles of food in elaborate chaffing dishes, tureens and trays so that guests were encouraged to graze their way through the bounteous offerings.
    — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 30 Aug. 2017

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