Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: earthen
IPA transcription: ['ɝθən]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: earthen
    Meaning: made of earth (or baked clay); "an earthen pot"
Usage examples
  • On the table stood a singular-looking green plant in a red earthen jar.
  • The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.
  • One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together.
  • But the Earthen Pot excused himself, saying that it would be wiser for him to stay in the corner by the fire.
  • They had not gone ten paces before the Earthen Pot cracked, and at the next jolt he flew into a thousand pieces.
  • In his excitement he took his hand off Dick's shoulder and leaned forward a little farther, supporting himself now against the earthen wall.
  • One day they were in pursuit of a cat, which, seeing no other place of refuge near, made her escape into a long earthen water-pipe which was lying on the ground.
  • In this way he lived for many years until, one night, he thought that he would count the money he had hidden away in the great earthen pot under the floor of his hut.
  • As laying-time approaches, towards the middle of August, I instal half-a- dozen Labyrinth Spiders in large wire-gauze cages, each standing in an earthen pan filled with sand.