How to Use kiln in a Sentence

kiln

noun
  • Most of them were built, dried, glazed, then fired in a kiln.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Each piece is dried in the sun and then kiln-fired to bake it hard.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2025
  • There isn’t much time for the raw clay to harden in the kiln.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Fresh wood is stacked to dry, or put in a kiln if there’s a rush order.
    — Deborah Storey | For Al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Beauty nerds know that clay ain't just for pre-schoolers or the kiln.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 12 July 2017
  • And each kiln process varies as much as the works born from every unique firing.
    — Ryan Dyer, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The school also has an art room that comes with a full kiln for pottery projects.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
    — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The soft clay then has to be fired, which might require a trip to your local kiln.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Burn biomass or waste to heat the kiln instead of fossil fuel.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Through a back door lay a vast ceramics workshop with two kilns.
    — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, there's always the chance that a piece might not make it out of the kiln intact.
    — Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • In the wood kiln, our palette was limited to browns and dark greens.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2018
  • An art studio, complete with kiln, has taken shape in what was the garage over the past few years.
    — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
  • Many were artists from the Kent area, who, once a year, use Brown’s anagama kiln.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • The kiln firing produces tiles that differ in color from lot to lot.
    — Josh Garskof, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • The thick slabs, which look like textured ice blocks, take nearly two weeks to fully cure in a kiln.
    — Curbed, 26 May 2023
  • Once in place, the dials then undergo a drying process in an oven or kiln.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • The kiln, which can fit on the back of a small trailer, weighs more than 1,500 pounds.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Poitras is still a piece of clay, yet to be fully fired in the NHL kiln.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The kiln, 20 feet deep with an arched fire mouth, resembled a brick dragon.
    — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • It was then taken to be disposed in a cement kiln north of the capital.
    — Bharatha Mallawarachi, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • And unlike a cement kiln that has to run all the time and stay hot, this process could run when the wind blows and the sun shines.
    — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The high temperatures in the kiln rearrange the atoms in the soft clay.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
  • Visitors can watch how pots are fired in Raku kilns and then buy and glaze a pot for $10.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Panes with illustrations such as faces and clothes are painted by hand and fired in a kiln to bind the paint to the glass.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Rose has fired everything from jugs to loos and done her utmost to protect the potters from the kiln gods.
    — Abby Monteil, Them, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The fire appeared to be in the area where Haeger’s kilns and retail shop were once located.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • That’s true of the musical guests, many of whom found fame online and aren’t kiln-fired in the glare of camera lights.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • This, of course, is where the gang burns the Sanderson sisters alive using a pottery kiln.
    — EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023

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