Sentence examples for bits of clay from inspiring English sources

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A shelf of small objects, flippant little bits of clay and cardboard, is worth dozens of lesser careers.

Torres had been etching deep furrows into the Creature's forehead, and shaved bits of clay were scattered on his desk, like clippings on a barbershop floor.

Seed potatoes were slow to sprout, and when they did, I had to help out by prying bits of clay away from their tender shoots.

Discarded bits of clay, pencil shavings, cigarette butts, dust - all are swept up after the session and used to make more clay.

As I vacuumed away the last bits of clay, I found an elegant dangling earring hugging the back of the toilet bowl.

And in "Wallpaper," Woodman recycles 90 cast-off bits of clay — pieces cut away during the making of her ceramics — by glazing them and arranging them on a wall, where they will be free to visitors for the taking.

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In the kitchen, Latino workers whip up quantities of a "chelonian carnivore gelatine," devised by a German professor of genetics, that contains fish, snails, beef heart, low-fat milk, shrimp with shells, a bit of clay.

The late-night pottery sequence, in which the pair snuggle up to a bit of clay and the strains of Unchained Melody, became one of cinema's most-loved and most-parodied scene.

"I put my hand in, pulled out a bit of clay and there was a little Radial, a little bronze Roman coin.

"Every bit of clay has to be removed and taken back up by hand, trowel and bucket, so work is incredibly slow," she added.

Start with a soft bit of clay.

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