cook up
Example Sentences
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To be sure, there are other ways to cook up those spots, but they require high temperatures the rock probably never experienced.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
To do so, I stay away from bistros in fancy neighborhoods, which charge too much and often cook up mediocre food.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Madhusudhan says that does nothing to disprove his hypothesis; comets are known to be little laboratories that can cook up all sorts of unlikely things.
From Salon • May 31, 2025
No matter how you dress them, whatever complicated motivations and methodologies you cook up, they’re all cut from the same pattern.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2024
Carmen sat in a chair watching Mrs. Grasso cook up a storm.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
