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[stohv] / stoʊv /


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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

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

In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking and other researchers discovered surprising connections between the laws of thermodynamics, which describe familiar processes such as heating water on a stove, and the behavior of black holes.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

She shrugged, and walked past him towards the stove.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Camp Bestival's announcement means purpose-built barbecues and camping stoves can only be used in the designated cooking areas within the campsites.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

A music festival has banned revellers using camping stoves at their tents and disposable barbecues anywhere on site due to the hot weather and "dry ground conditions" expected this weekend.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

But he said concerns usually fall away when they learn more about induction stoves.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

With no electricity, Cubans can’t use air conditioning, fans or electrical stoves on the tropical island.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

He was thinking of a cabin that had two lamps, both lit at the same time, and two stoves, one to cook on and one to warm by.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pipe rack was originally a wrought-iron frame upon which dirty clay pipes were stoved in a brick oven and restored to their original freshness.

From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

Owing largely to the strides made in the cycle trade enamelling is stoved by means of gas, and of this a plentiful supply is necessary.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

Gauzes are whitened in the same manner, only a little gum is put in the soap liquor before they are stoved.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

It is possible to enter only in calm weather, or the boat would be stoved in against the rocky archway.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin

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 gradations of quality may be partly due to the action of heat, i.e. stoving at a higher or lower temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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

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




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