Sentence examples for poor cook from inspiring English sources

From time to time, absurd rumours do start up – famous baseless ones from the past include John Major and that poor cook, the affair between two (male) cabinet ministers of Mrs Thatcher's.

Even though England's results in one-day cricket have been relatively poor, Cook has been removed because of his dismal form, with an average of 27.52 in his last 20 matches telling its own story.

"Musicians are poor," Cook said.

The working poor cook burgers, deliver pizzas, fold shirts, help people pick out shoes, cut grass, answer phones, move boxes in warehouses, organize items on shelves, and take care of children and the elderly.

The money helps some poorer cooks.

But the poor home cook, without hope of an eight-hundred-degree brick oven, and lucky if he can press-gang a ten-year-old into peeling carrots, can still salt hard, and so salt, its varieties and use, becomes a luxury replacement, a sign of seriousness even when you don't have the real tools of seriousness at hand.

And don't forget that supermarkets have actively undermined our national food handling experience and skill by telling us that we're too "time poor" to cook from scratch, largely because it is much more profitable for them to sell us value-added, processed foods whose apparent freshness is validated by reassuring dates.

On a dismal tour that has seen Jonathan Trott, Graeme Swann and Steven Finn leave early because of a combination of illness, lack of desire and poor form, Cook's team have won only two matches against modest representative opposition.

Ninety percent of the wood consumed in Africa is used as fuel — mostly by the poor to cook and heat — either directly burned or converted into charcoal.

Cook, cook, cook, cook, cook.

Dix lives just a five-minute drive from Williams, who, despite suffering poor eyesight, cooks for his disabled wife, Beryl, who has her own PA.