Sentence examples for kettle about from inspiring English sources

"It feels a bit like a boiling kettle, about to blow up," said Thierry Goffeau, the leader of the mission in Goma for the aid organization Doctors Without Borders.

A steam kettle about four and a half feet tall — it looks more like a large, industrial vat, something you might find in a chemical plant — sits in one corner, filled with about 200 pounds of veal bones and 20 pounds of mirepoix and tomatoes, which churn on the surface as the stock simmers and reduces.

It's a tune normally accompanied by the percussion of tapping fingers on a surface or the soft hiss of a kettle about to boil.

Recently, I was frustrated with a friend (and they were completely unaware) I felt like a kettle about to blow, and I knew I was going to if I didn't say something.

After a while, with the foot soldiers in a kettle about 500 metres away and with no sign of the antifa giving up, the cops had little option but to ask the EDL führers if they wouldn't mind fucking off, and the EDL führers had little option but to agree.

So far there have been 21 arrests, and police are currrently kettling about 200-300 marchers in Amagerbrogade.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black about revisionist history concerning the Japanese American internment.

The first, Heart's Desire, is about a family waiting for their daughter; the second, Blue Kettle, is about a son searching for his mother.

There are drawbacks: like other coffee pots and kettles, this one has calibrations that bear no resemblance to reality (the kettle holds about 7 1/2 cups, not 10).

Give me a blanket, a standard lamp, a boiling kettle and about three square feet of floorspace and I'll hand you back a baby that's as docile and contented as a wagyu cow.

However, an electric kettle converts about 80% of the electricity used into energy to heat the water, while the comparable figure for a pan of water on the gas is around 40% and a microwave about 55%.