potholder

Example Sentences

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I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022

When a potholder catches fire while she’s making coffee, Caroline Bryant perceives the boy’s smile in the flame.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

The Ojai artist weaves each 6-by-6-inch potholder by hand as a “form of embodied meditation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

One of my friends is sewing medical masks, using the loops from a child’s potholder weaving kit for the earpieces.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2020

Use the potholder in one hand to hold the cover on, and with the other move the pan back and forth across the unit.

From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Wilson, Eric B.