How to Use tureen in a Sentence

tureen

noun
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  • All that is left is the art—the Aubusson tapestries, the Sèvres tureens.
    — James McAuley, Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Did my girl just pour a tureen of something red and splotchy on her head?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 July 2022
  • Search your cookware for a wine chiller or soup tureen.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Servers wheeled in a large silver tureen filled with steaming-hot broth.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Thus the fried calamari, tender and crisp, glides to the table as if on a barge, and the soup of the day (lentil is especially soothing) could fill a tureen.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Two Chelsea-porcelain plaice tureens, covers, and spoons, circa 1755.
    — Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 15 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • It was known for family-style eating at tables laden with tureens of Taix’s famed soup and salad, and platters of fruit and cheese.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Both come out in large tureens with metal ladles, though that’s where the similarities end.
    — Lillian Li, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
  • There were rows of silver tureens, dark wood walls, high chandeliers, and beautiful Old World tableware.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • My Regency-era china cabinet, next to luncheon plates and a soup tureen?
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The tureen collection moved in 1996 to Winterthur, a museum in Delaware.
    — Jim Walsh, (cherry Hill, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Don’t feel guilty about breaking up a china set: Soup tureens and teacups can be repurposed as beautiful containers for plants.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
  • A few months ago, a woman reached out to the foundation to donate a tureen that belonged to Harrison, offering it to the museum, Meyers said.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pots of herbs and dainty antiques lined the windowsills as Ms. Cosnean dished out portions from a porcelain tureen full of root vegetable soup glistening with pumpkin seed oil.
    — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • As dramatic lights flash, Ogata dips his head into the tureen—and jerks back immediately, grimacing in pain.
    — Joel Warner, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2012
  • 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
  • Because Bourdain was our Ulysses, navigating between rocks and monsters, stopping for music and dinner and drinks, trying to keep his ship sailing through soup tureens and whirlpools, and the vast, endlessly televised ocean.
    — latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • 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
  • Soup’s role already has diminished greatly at Campbell, which once displayed 325 antique tureens at its headquarters and drew caravans of trucks from South Jersey produce farms to a seven-story downtown factory.
    — Jim Walsh, (cherry Hill, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Gamblers, occultists, harlots, castrato singers, and masked revelers populated the galleries alongside beautifully crafted wall sconces, ball gowns, and porcelain tureens.
    — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018

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