Sentence examples for put a frog from inspiring English sources

At school a friend once told me that if you put a frog into boiling water it jumps straight out, but if you put a frog into cold water and gradually heat it up, it just sits there and boils.

"If you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat, it'll boil to death — it's a nice analogy," he told The New York Times.

"If you put a frog in a pan of cold water and slowly turn up the heat, he'll die, rather than jumping out".

"If you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat, it'll boil to death — it's a nice analogy," said Mr. Crabb, who oversees learning and development at Facebook.

"In experiments," she explains, "if you put a frog in a shallow saucepan of water and heat up the water very slowly, the frog will never quite notice how hot it's getting.

It's like that other old adage about how if you put a frog into boiling water it'll thrash around in panic, but if you put it into a pot of water and gently heat it, eventually the frog will make the jarring discovery that it has spent 12 months writing about Tony Abbott.

You know that old story about putting a frog in a pot of slowly boiling water and how it won't jump out?

But often the abuse comes stealthily, like putting a frog in a pot of cool water and raising the heat.

We had stickers saying things like, 'The mag that put your brain in the blender,' because at the time there were all those jokes about putting a frog in a blender—'what's green and goes red at the push of a button?' If you're going to push boundaries, you will offend people".

We had stickers saying things like, 'The mag that put your brain in the blender,' because at the time there were all those jokes about putting a frog in a blender – 'what's green and goes red at the push of a button?' If you're going to push boundaries, you will offend people".

I was left with strong impressions of my own daughters in the Lasnet home: finding my 3-year-old in a pink tutu, rolling side to side on a skateboard, eating an apple; my 8-year-old standing on tiptoe to look at an old sundial where she had put a tiny frog in a bowl for safekeeping.