POT in a Sentence

Learn POT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

126 example sentences for POT, such as:

1. A little pot is soon hot.
2. A watched pot is long in boiling.
3. There's some fresh tea in the pot.
4. The pot's calling the kettle black.
5. Fair words will not make the pot play.

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 Meanings and Examples of POT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pot
 n.  a round container used for cooking, serving, storing, and other purposes
 v.  put a plant into a container to grow
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  The pot's calling the kettle black.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  There was some hominy left in the pot and she ate it with a big cooking spoon, not waiting to put it on a plate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  A fat mulatto woman, who was leaning over a rusty old stove, dropped a half curtsy as she saw Scarlett and went on stirring a pot in which black-eyed peas were cooking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Along the decks she saw missionaries, gamblers in tall pot hats, and Dakota chiefs with scarlet blankets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The high light was a polished copper pot filled with primroses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  I thought it weak-minded of grandmother to give the pot to her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
9  Mrs. Shimerda ladled meal mush out of an iron pot and poured milk on it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
10  She was endeavoring to heat a pot of chocolate on the stove.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
11  Now, I'd like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  Ben Weatherstaff brought the rose in its pot from the greenhouse.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  He knelt down by the hole and broke the pot from the mould.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  The good advice was followed, and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not know where to put it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
15  She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  The pot shattered as it hit the floor.
17  The lid still stayed on when the pot had dropped onto the floor.
18  There's some fresh tea in the pot.
19  After flowering, place the pot in a shady spot in the garden.
20  A little pot is soon hot.
21  We hadn't booked a hotel so we had to take pot luck.
22  We had no idea which hotel would be best, so we just took pot luck with the first one on the list.
23  No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot.
24  Sam went into the kitchen to make a pot of tea.
25  A watched pot is long in boiling.
26  Fair words will not make the pot play.
27  Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure.
28  I put the lid on the pot, but the water is boiling so fiercely that it won't stick on.
29  He bought a pot and other hardware at the store.
30  His belly is like a cooking pot, Which happens when you eat a lot.