stove
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He and his roommates would use up to six stove burners at a time to prepare meals together, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The day was in the low 70s, and a breeze was coming through our kitchen window; I decided I would not mind standing at the stove long enough to coax the squash toward sweet collapse.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
On 17 July, part of the Rustic Stomp festival near Wareham, Dorset, was destroyed by a fire that started when a camping stove set fire to a tent.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I follow the heavenly scent to the burners on the stove.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
They include steel, aluminum, clothing, smartphones and other electronics, fish, dishwashers, washing machines, and stoves.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Two of them changed how we use stoves, both industrial and domestic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
But he said concerns usually fall away when they learn more about induction stoves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
Other men were just starting to build stoves and came to Yossarian’s tent during the day to marvel at Orr’s workmanship.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity.
From Time Magazine Archive
He walked with a limp, stiff and stoved in his joints as a foundered horse.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
Magramite dissolved in alcohol is painted on the cardboard cans and when these are stoved the coating becomes insoluble.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
If they had not, being so short-handed for the size of the boat, they would have been stoved; as it was they were nearly wrecked by a balk of timber from the explosion.
From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
"I regret the what-do-you-call-it?—the stoved howtowdy," said he, laughing, "more for the sound of it than for any sense its name conveys to me."
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
Black hold, the detonations fierce, floor puddled with wet sick; heaving; victory blotched by fog and rain, the wind meddling, ships luffing, stoving up as if careened; and I below.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The operator should procure his enamels a shade or two lighter than he desires to see in the finished article, allowing the chemical action due to the stoving to tone the colours down.
From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown
In this year, however, the process of stoving was introduced.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by George C. V. Holmes
The clothes she had worn disappeared mysteriously for some days, and were then returned from the stoving department of the Glenbury Sanitation Office.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by John Campbell
After a second baking or perhaps stoving had taken place, the designs were further enriched by the application of opaque purple and white pigments, which follow certain conventional principles in their respective use.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
