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Example sentences for "cooking"

Lexicographically close words:
cookery; cookhouse; cookie; cookies; cookin; cookmaid; cooks; cookstove; cooky; cool
  1. Bears will flee and wildcats sneak to their dens, but the moment incense of cooking arises from your camp every pig within two miles will scent it and hasten to call.

  2. Preachers and exhorters are housed nearby, and visitors from all the country scatter about with their friends, or sleep in the open, cooking their meals by the wayside.

  3. While I was baking the biscuit and cooking some meat, he told his story.

  4. Happily the kitchen door had stood the pressure upon it, so that all my crockery and cooking materials had survived.

  5. And when we wake up,” Jule mocked, “well see the Rambler riding in the cove and Alex cooking a catfish a la Indian at the fire!

  6. Clay had not returned and the fire built for the purpose of cooking the fish had burned down to embers.

  7. Don’t you remember how we always kept a few provisions and cooking utensils in there in case of accident?

  8. After cooking breakfast at the old camp at the head of the cove, the boys again set out on their journey.

  9. We come with them and stopped at Fort Gibson where my own grand mammy was cooking for the soldiers at the garrison.

  10. The old women done all de cooking in big iron pots that hung over the fire.

  11. We allus ate at de Big House as mammy had to do de cooking for de family.

  12. To prepare this rice for cooking after harvested they would burn a trough into a log, they called mortar and with a large wooden mallet they called pessel, and which they would pound upon the rice until hulled and ready for cooking.

  13. Dey would annoy de white folks wid shouting and singing and praying and dey would take cooking pots and put over dey mouths so de white folks couldn't hear 'em.

  14. Then they had a brush shelter built out of four poles with a roof made out of brush, set out to one side of the house where they do the cooking and eating, and sometimes the sleeping too.

  15. Miss Mary have a black woman name Vici what wait on her all the time, and do the carding and spinning and cooking 'round the house, and Vici belong to Miss Mary.

  16. They had lots of company at de Big House, and it was de only tavern too, so they was lots of cooking to do.

  17. The Perryman slave cabins was all alike--just two-room log cabins, with a fireplace where mother do the cooking for us children at night after she get through working in the Master's house.

  18. Mammy done the cooking in big wash kettles and pappy done the driving of the oxen.

  19. He gave the food out to each family and they done their own cooking except during harvest.

  20. Jest one big chimbley was all he had, and it was on de kitchen end, and we done all de cooking in a fireplace dat was purty nigh as wide as de whole room.

  21. The cooking was done all up to the general kitchen at Masters house and when slaves come from work they would send their children up to the kitchen to bring their meals to their homes in the quarters.

  22. I used to steal brown sugar lumps when mammy would be cooking but he didn't know 'bout dat.

  23. On this were perched two men, three women, a dog, a small tent, and the cooking utensils of the family.

  24. I came to tell you she is nearly well again, and Jim wishes you to eat a dinner of his cooking to-morrow evening.

  25. This long cooking in air-tight cans causes the bones to be absorbed without wasting the juices and flavor of the fish.

  26. The minor annoyances of our neighbour's washing and our neighbour's cooking are as nothing compared to these, and we must consider ourselves fortunate if we have quiet people next door.

  27. To make "chocolate creams," set one-half of a cake of cooking chocolate on a flat dish in the oven until soft.

  28. Still less do we make of that other French Definition of the Cooking Animal; which, indeed, for rigorous scientific purposes, is as good as useless.

  29. I notice the doctor favors 'em, and I DO like cooking for a man who appreciates his victuals.

  30. Mason,) actually took his turn in cooking for his mess.

  31. Our cooking did not occupy much time, and we left camp early.

  32. The Indians had now an occasion for a great feast and were occupied the remainder of the day and all night in cooking and eating.

  33. Rude berths or bunks had been built along the sides of the cabin, and a few rough chairs and the various utensils which were necessary for cooking were also seen.

  34. On other days the cooking was to be done in the open air, and the fireplace and the pile of logs which was to furnish fuel soon could be seen clearly as the party came nearer to the island.

  35. If the Englishwoman would only take to the chiffons of cooking instead of the chiffons of clothes!

  36. Is not our middle-class cooking a monument to our extravagance?

  37. What little cooking is undertaken among the poorer natives is usually done outside.

  38. I should much rather do the cooking myself than try to train some one who is as hopelessly green as this girl.

  39. The fire was lighted, and very soon all were busy cooking and eating.

  40. After the pack animals are unloaded, a part of the men start out to set the traps, while the remainder busy themselves in looking after their wants and in cooking and guarding their property, etc.

  41. To guard this property there were only about fifty men left, who, anticipating no danger, were employing themselves in cooking and otherwise providing for the wants of their absent friends against their return.

  42. When the coffee is done, he shuts off the heat and checks the cooking by reducing the temperature of the coffee and of the cylinder as quickly as can be done.

  43. In some cases, better results are gained if the coffee is introduced into the dish by scalding or cooking the right proportion of ground coffee with the liquid which is to form the base.

  44. The brew is complete when it drips from the grounds, and further cooking or "heating up" injures the quality.

  45. It still is one of the chief attractions for the epicure, retaining the reputation for its cooking that drew a host of world leaders, from Napoleon to Edward VII, to its quaint interior.

  46. The entire excellent cooking was to her as though it were not; which shows how much she must have been stirred.

  47. What you've to think of now, Lucy, is getting your hands white, and the marks of sewing and cooking off.

  48. At home there was cooking to be done, cakes and pies and things for the village ball and tea-treat.

  49. And it was the kitchen when the cooking was being done on the oil stove, so you see it was three rooms in one.

  50. While they were doing this, Mother Brown was cooking the breakfast on the oil stove, and Daddy Brown, and Bunker Blue were setting the table out under the trees.

  51. Have cooking in a saucepan a minced onion with a thin slice of bacon and a heaping tablespoonful of J.

  52. Cut a pound of the meat into inch squares and toss them about in a frying pan, with an overflowing tablespoonful of Antonini Olive Oil; after cooking five minutes add a tablespoonful of J.

  53. Proceed as per recipe for Curry of Scallops, with the exception that the frogs require one hour's cooking in the milk.

  54. Put the bottle into a pot of warm water and cork it the same as in cooking beef tea; let it boil an hour, then place at one side to cool and settle.

  55. Happily for both, a critical moment in the cooking of the supper had arrived.

  56. Sarah was cooking their mid-day meal, which had come from her own pocket.

  57. The deaf old woman who came in to do his cooking and housework worried him little, and apparently did not gossip about his actions or his habits; whilst the three rooms he had furnished were more than sufficient for his needs.

  58. They regarded her much as a municipal politician regards a chartered accountant; but they knew it was useless to add up two and five as eight, or to charge for fresh butter when cooking butter had been ordered.

  59. A cooking pear, valued for its regular and abundant bearing and keeping qualities.

  60. A cooking pear raised from seed by Governor Edwards of New Haven, Conn.

  61. Chasset, Secretary-general of the Pomological Society of France, to be the finest of all cooking pears.

  62. A cooking pear of no particular merit which originated at the market town of Marsaneix, Department of Dordogne, Fr.

  63. Nora was an outside worker, and very proud that her last year's lessons in a normal cooking class had fitted her to give regular lessons to a group of the Mansion girls.

  64. There were other social settlements in the city, and one or two other domestic science schools in which girls had a good chance to learn cooking and other branches of household work.

  65. She says she'd like to be a cook, but it seems to me that if she continues to be interested in her study, she might be a director of cooking somewhere.

  66. As to Gretchen herself, she was now quite determined to be a cook when she should be older, and Julia had made plans to send her to a regular cooking school at the end of a year.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cooking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cooking pots; cooking utensils