Sentence examples for on a cooker from inspiring English sources

Webb points out that something as simple as using an oven for an hour can cost many multiples of using the rings on a cooker – a minor cost which can mount up, and one that may not be noticed by a teenager.

Water boiling on a cooker (it reminds me of my gran's house).

Being an ideal, such a city is something never perfectly attained – no one can regulate the temperature of a city as if it were a gas ring on a cooker.

The former Tory MP for Totnes Anthony Steen returned £561, which included a bill for maintenance on a cooker in his rented-out coach house that had been "inadvertently" submitted.

Put a frying pan with some butter in it on a cooker.

Without a serious effort at national conciliation, American troops are just holding down the lid on a pressure cooker.

But if the Hugheses elected to go splurging on a posh cooker, refrigerator, and bed, what the hell?

Its ornamental copper mansard roof was like the lid on a pressure cooker, and a limestone cherub danced on a pedestal at the corner.

The leak was in a gasket in a bell-shaped compartment that serves as an emergency valve, akin to that on a pressure cooker.

"I was a Weber and briquettes kind of guy," said Michael Barry who has prepared everything from turkeys to apple brown betties on a ceramic cooker in his San Rafael, Calif., backyard.

"Capping premiums without recognizing the forces that are driving up costs would be like tightening the lid on a pressure cooker while the heat is being turned up," Mrs. Turner said.