How To Use Teacup In A Sentence
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He wor nobbut tryin his best to catch a blue-bottle-fly, an it went into th 'winder whear be couldn't raik it, soa he sammed up a teacup an flang it at it, -- nivver thinkin owt abaat th' winder, becoss he knew ha tha hated sich things buzzin abaat thi heead; but whativver that child does it seems to be wrang.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
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Ov cooarse th 'child didn't meean to braik th' winder, nor the teacup nawther, -- but he owt to be towt different; an aw dooant believe awr Hepsabah knows owt abaat trainin childer as they owt to be trained.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
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He might have caused a storm in a teacup in the corridors of the Westminster press lobby as journalists squabbled over who had the story, whether it was attributable and who had told The Sun anyway.
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This has been a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
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Then he stops short and mulls it over, fingers toying absently with the spoon in his teacup.
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It meant participation in an expanding repertoire of domestic rituals made possible by creamware teacups and saucers, decanters, wine glasses, pickle plates, and forks of all sorts.
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The first time he did this he filled the cup half full, as is usually done with handle-less Japanese teacups (so that the cup won't be too hot to hold).
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Back at the Hub, the Thursday night rehearsal breaks for coffee and everyone swarms towards the teacups neatly stacked at the back of the hall amid the dripping brollies and discarded coats.
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Advertised in glowing terms on a website, the tours include courses in etiquette, such as the tip that coffee cups are held over the lap while teacups are held away from the saucer.
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Chamomile tea is an excellent stomachic when taken in moderate doses of half-a-teacupful at a [86] time.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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I was wondering where you get teacups like this, as I don't usually see them in antique stores.
Crinoline Lady Craft
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In one of the most famous scenes in literature, for instance, boredom takes time. Marcel Proust describes his protagonist, Marcel, dunking a madeleine cookie into his teacup.
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Served in a china teacup and saucer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Puncturing the three blisters received while trying to impress fellow teacup riders with spin speed, get in line for Matterhorn.
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But it could be a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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Standard Chartered may well have recklessly flouted the law, or this could be a storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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a dainty teacup
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Line two large teacups or similar shaped 200 ml moulds with clingfilm.
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Votives and tea lights can be popped into old teacups, apples can be cored to hold a taper candle, or you can just set pillars and votives on top of an old wall mirror or picture frame used as a tray!
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Frederick has already started to produce his Christmas line of serving dishes, platters, bowls and teacups, which will be on sale at the open studio.
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So this was another storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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What happened between me and Ian was a storm in a teacup, handbags at 22 paces, and there was no real aggro, beyond the pair of us making our points.
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Drink one teacupful of plantain tea four to five times daily until relief is obtained.
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The two young men clinked their teacups together, validating their deal.
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We wandered around for hours, playing ringtoss and roulette, going on the teacup ride that whips you into a frenzy as if you were caught inside a centrifuge.
Diversion
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A white teacup slipped from coffee-coloured fingers and shattered on the hardwood floor.
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Then transparent china teacups, no larger than half an egg-shell, make their appearance, and the ladies are offered a few drops of sugarless tea, poured out of toy kettles, or a sip of 'saki' -- (a spirit made from rice which it is the custom to serve hot, in elegantly shaped vases, long-necked like a heron's throat).
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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There was an open-air teahouse with picnic tables and young Japanese girls in kimonos who brought dainty teacups along with two pots of tea.
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We also had face-painting, a barbecue, run by Chippenham Round Table, teacup and swingboat rides and a selection of giant inflatables.
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‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made.
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I just think it's a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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Roll an ounce of butter in a good teaspoonful of flour; season with pepper, salt and nutmeg; put it into a coffeecupful of fresh milk, together with two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley; stir and simmer it for fifteen minutes, add a teacupful of thick cream.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
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Votives and tea lights can be popped into old teacups, apples can be cored to hold a taper candle, or you can just set pillars and votives on top of an old wall mirror or picture frame used as a tray!
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-- Simmer a teacupful of port wine, the same quantity of good meat gravy, a little shalot, a little pepper, salt,
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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Evangeline shrugged and gestured to the tray of teacups on the coffee table.
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It's an entertaining storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the finale, a traditional liqueur called ratafia is steeping basically fruit and spices soaked in brandy for a few weeks, and although declaring herself "not crafty," Curtis is trying gamely to hand-paint teacups.
The Seattle Times
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If we roll the clock forward six to nine months we are going to find this was something of a storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coffee cups, although identical in their squat shape to teacups, were generally larger.
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The fair was once the ultimate in entertainment but the world of funhouses and spinning teacups has seen better days.
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A storm in a teacup or a bad case of wind?
Times, Sunday Times
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* The hothouse atmosphere of sanatorium life, the stark contrast between material luxury and inner spiritual misery, the frantic search for pleasure in the face of death, the petty scandals and storms in teacups, the black flags, symbolising death, which hung from the windows of the sanatoria-all these need no further elaboration here.
Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 3
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She placed her empty teacup on the table and poured a cup for Stewart.
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Transaction value was sufficient in a world of mass consumers buying toasters and teacups, but in our new world of complex individuals, relationship value is the key to long-term growth.
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Served in a china teacup and saucer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've always loved coming here, I thought, as we made tea in the not-too-floral teacups and remembered the parkin she used to make.
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Have ready 3 clean inverted small tumblers with smooth, round bottoms; custard cups; or a teacup with a very small handle.
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Few places are so alive with children smiling, laughing and throwing up in giant rotating teacups.
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Both are trying to present the disagreement as a storm in a teacup.
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There have been hiccups and faux pas in the past, albeit most of them storms in a teacup.
The Sun
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Faye had asked, finishing her tea and delicately placing the teacup on the small coffee table.
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He took a drink from his teacup, and placed the cup down on the saucer very seriously.
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An ovoid dripless teacup he designed in 1955 garnered what he claimed was "the first patent that had been issued for a teacup in a hundred years.
Career Produced an Elegant Design
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It is a bit of a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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(This chapter in Sisman's book should be skipped by anyone of a delicate disposition: the ugliness of the behaviour exhibited by his opponents was in inverse proportion to the laughable tinyness of the teacup.)
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
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With respect to the pseudoscope -- which makes the outside of a teacup appear as the inside, and the inside as the outside; which transforms convexity into concavity, and the reverse; and a sculptured face into a hollow mask; which makes the tree in your garden appear inside your room, and the branches farthest off come nearest to the eye; and which, when you look at your pictures, represents them as sunk into a deep recess in the wall, -- with respect to this instrument, its practical uses have yet to be discovered.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
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I couldn't even see a collection of mouldy teacups festering on the new wooden floor.
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Kelley, piqued, took her purse from him, setting the teacup carefully down.
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That scene was a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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He spoke as chairman of the Forward poetry prize judges, and his honest comments predictably caused a storm in the teacup world of the poets he meant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hikaru removed the infuser from the teapot on his desk, setting it aside, and then poured the contents of the pot into two teacups.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
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The chorus of voices was so loud that the teacup on the small coffee table behind her shook.
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As of this date, the Jarandiol say they still involve a lot of styling tips and garden parties where they all paint their own teacups and pass them around as gifts.
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BEEF STEAK, STEWED -- Peel and chop two spanish onions, cut into small parts four pickled walnuts, and put them at the bottom of a stewpan; add a teacupful of mushroom ketchup, two teaspoonfuls of walnut ditto, one of shalot, one of chile vinegar, and a lump of butter.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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There is a distinct lack of grandmotherly clutter—no knickknacks, no lace doilies, no miniature teacups with depictions of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Ten Miles Past Normal
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Going head-to-head against Jack Nicklaus in a major was like trying to drain the Pacific Ocean with a teacup.
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Was it a storm in a teacup?
Times, Sunday Times
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But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom.
The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
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The earliest EIC printed catalogue, from 1704, shows chocolate cups and teacups, both with saucers.
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In its sentiments Pouncey's novel flaunts psychotherapy as a fashionable accessory, the sharing of confidences (already grasped before they are spelt out) over the tinkle of fine teacups.
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The link with asthma is a bit of a storm in a teacup too.
Times, Sunday Times
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A little before serving, add the juice of a lemon and a teacupful of boiling cream.
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Cover with paste, and when the pie is baked, pour into it a large teacupful of cream.
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From 7 for a teacup and saucer (habitat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some may dismiss this episode as a pedantic storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cup-shaped vessel specially made to keep the lighted mosquito repellent coil, candle stand and small teacups are among the attractions.
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The dolls are to be served a pretend lunch, so they each have their own striped chair and matching tiny teacup and plate.
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It's just a storm in a teacup.
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Beat the eggs light and add with the flour and a quarter of a teacupful of sweet milk.
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Inside Len set out the teacups and plates on the coffee table while he waited for the jug to boil.
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For making a 'squailer' a teacup was the best mould: the cups then in use in the country were rather larger than those at present in fashion.
The Amateur Poacher
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I'll gladly swap my Teacup ride for a spin on the Waltzer, but I'll keep my Teacup repeat rider ticket in my wallet, just in case.
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It was a storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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Books can function as doorstops, paperweights, hiding places for some valuables, platforms for balancing a teacup on or props for broken chairs or tables.
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His mother came in a moment later with a tray with two teacups full of coffee, some sugar and a small container of cream.
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I'm just glad it turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
Times, Sunday Times
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There have been hiccups and faux pas in the past, albeit most of them storms in a teacup.
The Sun
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Sydney chuckled and set her empty teacup on the coffee table.
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Take a teacupful of flour and mix it with a teacupful of caster sugar and a teaspoonful of baking powder; break two eggs into a cup, then slide into the mixture.
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Both are trying to present the disagreement as a storm in a teacup.
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It meant participation in an expanding repertoire of domestic rituals made possible by creamware teacups and saucers, decanters, wine glasses, pickle plates, and forks of all sorts.
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He wor nobbut tryin his best to catch a blue-bottle-fly, an it went into th 'winder whear be couldn't raik it, soa he sammed up a teacup an flang it at it, -- nivver thinkin owt abaat th' winder, becoss he knew ha tha hated sich things buzzin abaat thi heead; but whativver that child does it seems to be wrang.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
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Serve miniature strawberry shortcakes, with pink lemonade or strawberry milkshakes in teacups.
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An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
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He sat at a miniature classically-styled table, drinking cream from a teacup.
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Teacups, a cream pitcher and a sugar bowl teased the teapot about her broken and scarred lid all the time.
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Books can function as doorstops, paperweights, hiding places for some valuables, platforms for balancing a teacup on or props for broken chairs or tables.
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Wrap the glutinous rice and pork belly with plastic film before putting them into teacup in order to prevent the rice sticking the teacup.
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_Orange: _ -- For five pounds of goods, muriate of tin six tablespoonfuls, argol four ounces; boil and dip one hour and add again to the dye one teacupful of madder; dip again one-half hour.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
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Julia stared at her teacup, her expression hidden behind the peas.
Her Fearful Symmetry
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We also had face-painting, a barbecue, teacup and swingboat rides and a selection of giant inflatables.
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Monica shook her head, glancing at the coffee table on which five empty teacups and a half-full plate of cakes sat.
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She was a fey creature from beginning to end, clinging to her white dress and teacup, scrawling the odd missive, at a loss in the environment she made her home and among the Warlpiri people who became her rescuers and friends.
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A storm in a teacup would be another way of putting it..
Times, Sunday Times
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He sipped from the white teacup, its flowered pattern a contrast to his dirty hands.
BLOSSOMS WEEP, SPIDERS FALL • by A.R. Williams
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But it seems it's just a storm in a teacup.
The Sun
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Carelessly, I knocked my teacup over and the tea went all over the tablecloth.
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The doodle shows an almost cartoonish figure of a man being scalded in a teacup by the boiling tea.
