Sentence examples for oven-like from inspiring English sources

This week, as millions left the cities for an annual pilgrimage to villages where they venerate the souls of their ancestors, many were likely to be stuck in 40-mile traffic jams on oven-like expressways, cursing the midsummer heat.Such misery is common during the Buddhist festival of Obon, but it is worse this year.

And in order to avoid burning up in the oven-like bedrooms, my hosts took their mattresses to the garden, preferring cockroaches over suffocation.

They spend an oven-like summer trying to make sense of existence while a mystery plays out at the edges of their lives.

"God bless his soul, our Dad called me Syria and another sister he called Palestine," she says, sitting in the corner of a hovel of oven-like heat in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

Can roughly $50 worth of materials and a DIY brick oven-like housing change all that?

Further, it's hard to feel pulled together in heat this oppressive... all-consuming... oven-like.

It looked so pretty before it went into the oven, like a lacy, leafy forest.

Inside of oven like a squash court of self-bouncing fire.

Place taros in oven like baking potatoes, and bake 45 minutes.

The grill, the nightly ritual with the grill — why couldn't the mother cook in the oven like anyone else?

And when they were superfat the lady tied them up and tried to shove them into the oven like turkeys.