Sentence examples for hob from inspiring English sources
The word 'hob' is correct and usable in written English
It can refer to a small shelf or tabletop used for keeping items warm or for cooking, or to a rotating metal shelf in a fireplace used for holding pots or pans. Here is an example sentence: She placed the teapot on the hob to keep it warm while she prepared the scones.
noun
A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on spur gears, worm gears, helical gears, splines, and sprockets.
I suppose it's because while there are a lot more electric items in the home, I only have a gas fire, gas hob and the central heating boiler and water heater, most of which I've switched off since starting the experiment because of the warm weather.
Soft, sweet, spicy and satisfying, it has become a work lunch staple, simmering away behind me on the hob as I write at my kitchen table.
Guests step up to the hob to be served, then find a place to perch - either on one of the chairs laid out in the garden or on a sofa underneath walls crowded with souvenirs and photos.
Usually we just cook them [on a gas hob] all in water.
Manju Parmar Clever cooking The families started to think about some of their kitchen-based habits for the first time, such as putting lids on saucepans; cooking vegetables in a steamer, instead of boiling them in separate pans on separate hobs; and using the correct size hob for the pan.
Related: From didders to hob-gobs: add to Robert Macfarlane's nature word-hoard Not long after returning from Lewis, and spurred on by the Oxford deletions, I resolved to put my word-collecting on a more active footing, and to build up my own glossaries of place words.
After all, America's diplomats argue, there was plenty of presidential hob-nobbing with the Russians during the cold war, when both sides were armed to the teeth, so why not with India too?
Much of Mr Clinton's hob-nobbing with Asian-born businessmen was no more venal than his coffee-meetings with American ones; foreign companies in America also provide jobs, pay taxes and have a legitimate interest in how the country is run.
Mr Patassé is now holed up in an agreeable hotel in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the country he misruled for a decade is in the hands of General François Bozizé, the disgruntled ex-chief of his army.While the bow-tied Mr Patassé was off hob-nobbing at a conference in Niger, General Bozizé swept into the capital, Bangui, with 1,000 troops.
Mr Bush lengthily hob-nobbed with Toomas Ilves, the American-educated president of Russia's least-loved neighbour, Estonia.
