like an oven
Example Sentences
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This helps explain why kids seem impervious to elements, and why it's always like an oven at your grandma's house.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023
The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven.
From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2022
During a brutal 2012 heat wave, defunct Washington thrashers Black Breath played an industrial space-turned-punk house that acted like an oven in the summer and an ice box in the winter.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2021
And record-smashing heat waves are further contributing to the danger by drying the state’s vegetation like an oven, Clements said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021
The refrigerator in front of them had bounced the sunlight back on the soil, heating it up like an oven.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
