pressure cooker

Example Sentences

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Dawn is hoping to use pressure cookers because she is unsure if her rice will be cooked and decisively congee-like without.

From Salon

What ultimately would these people find out and explore about each other in that pressure cooker of time?’”

From New York Times

The increased media attention is only a small part of the Olympic pressure cooker.

From Los Angeles Times

Before the Rio Games in 2016, the archers trained at a live baseball game, an unorthodox way to expose them to a pressure cooker atmosphere.

From New York Times

That pressure cooker appeared to burst early Wednesday when assassins stormed the president’s home in the hills of Port-au-Prince under the cover of darkness and shot him to death.

From Los Angeles Times