Sentence examples for stove down from inspiring English sources

The man nodded, and quickly put the stove down.

It did not make them rich, but Latvia's boom over the past few years reached Aija Voitov and her husband, Juris, who live in a two-room shack heated by a crude metal stove down a dirt road outside Riga.

The last moments of normal life in the third-floor apartment on Classon Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, ended that way, with one young mother, a pot of rice on the stove down the hall and two children in shallow water that would not be shallow enough.

But unlike "Barbershop" or other recent comedies, like "Drumline" and "Kingdom Come," that find inspiration, comic and otherwise, in southern black life and culture, this movie feels phony and slick, as if it were cooked up by Darrin's cynical ad agency, rather than at his aunt's stove down in Montecarlo.

Turn the stove down to a low heat, add a little water, and stir.

The most impressive service du jour, however, took place this winter, when her stove broke down only hours before guests were to arrive for dinner.

Each morning I descended to a little coppiced-hazel cubicle directly below the treehouse, yanked on a rope, and a Nile's worth of water (efficiently heated by our stove) plunged down upon my head.

In 1900, The British Medical Journal reported that peasants of the Pskov region in northwestern Russia "adopt the economical expedient" of spending one-half of the year in sleep: "At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep.

So it was a regular treat to cross paths with John Raper in a local shop, Norm Provan at your school speech night or in his furniture store at Rockdale, Reg Gasnier playing golf at Beverley Park, Brian Clay at the traffic lights in his truck, or, if your stove broke down, Bill Wilson of St George Ranges might be despatched to repair it.

Aunt Cissy, at the stove, set down iron pots enough for a dozen meals, and Phyllis, sent to fetch a special utensil from an alcove in the corner of the kitchen, came back to report that it had been mislaid "since the last time" and could not be found, so that Aunt Cissy had to put down her cooking spoon and go herself to search.

Do not turn the stove back down as this will take longer.