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Clay in sentence

193 examples of Clay in a sentence

We know that these were used for stamping clay tags that were attached to bundles of goods that were sent from one place to the other.
And I want to mention that these seals were used for stamping clay tags that were attached to bundles of goods, so it's quite likely that these tags, at least some of them, contain names of merchants.
You notice the clay on the soles of her feet.
Such red clay is not found within a hundred miles of Edinburgh, except in the botanical gardens.
It's made of wood with some layers of paint an eraser and a core, which is made out of graphite, clay and water.
Over in France, Nicolas-Jacques Conté figured out a method of grinding the graphite, mixing it with powdered clay and water to make a paste.
The firmer the pencil, the more clay it had in it and the lighter and finer it will be.
We started with a natural occurring clay called montmorillonite.
This is natural from the environment, this clay.
Certain kind of molecules like to associate with the clay.
And it turns out that his temporal bones were harvested when he died to try to look at the cause of his deafness, which is why he has molding clay and his skull is bulging out on the side there.
We present to you today a little sonic adventure, a little piece of improvisational whimsy, if you like, a piece on which, of course, the ink is still wet, the clay is still wet.
It's made of clay, and it's been fashioned into a cylinder shape, covered with close writing and then baked dry in the sun.
And that change, that great historic moment, was made possible by Cyrus, the king of Persia, reported for us in Hebrew in scripture and in Babylonian in clay.
He was making a horse out of the clay our teacher kept under the sink.
And he wadded up the clay horse and he threw it back in the bin.
I can also inflate or deflate it with the mouse wheel, so you sculpt it like clay.
So I can come in and I can do things, and just treat this planet as a lump of clay.
So this whole thing is kind of like a big lump of clay, a sculpture.
On my desk in my office, I keep a small clay pot that I made in college.
Each one was pinched or carved out of a ball of clay, and it was the imperfections that people cherished.
I can shape a pot out of clay and choose a glaze, but then I have to let it go to the fire and the smoke, and what's wonderful is the surprises that happen, like this crackle pattern, because it's really stressful on these pots.
When I came home to Gando to bring the good news, my people were over the moon, but when they realized that I was planning to use clay, they were shocked.
"A clay building is not able to stand a rainy season, and Francis wants us to use it and build a school.
Is this the reason why he spent so much time in Europe studying instead of working in the field with us?" My people build all the time with clay, but they don't see any innovation with mud.
So clay floor for example, the young men come and stand like that, beating, hours for hours, and then their mothers came, and they are beating in this position, for hours, giving water and beating.
The walls are totally made out of compressed clay blocks from Gando.
The innovation was to build a clay vault.
Something we have in Gando are clay pots.
We take the sand, we mix it with clay, and we keep building.
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