like an oven
Example Sentences
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He’ll give something useful, like an oven mitt or turkey baster.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022
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
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
That means that on even a pleasant day, a car can feel like an oven.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2014
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
