COOK in a Sentence

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Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.

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 Meanings and Examples of COOK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cook
 v.  prepare for eating by applying heat
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Our cook is the broad wife of the Wilkes butler, and he was over last night with the news that the engagement would be announced tonight and Cookie told us this morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Mrs. Meade will give you whatever chaperonage you need and I'll send over old Betsy to cook for you, if Miss Pitty wants to take her servants with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  They tore down the fences and burned them to cook with and the barns and the stables and the smokehouse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She is down with la grippe and so is her cook.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  After Suellen and Will married and Carreen went off to Charleston to the convent, Ashley, Melanie and Beau came to Atlanta, bringing Dilcey with them to cook and nurse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  Johnnie Gallegher was standing in the doorway of the miserable shack that served as cook room for the little lumber camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  She stepped over to the cook shack and looked in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
10  I should have said Carry Fisher's cook was enough to account for it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  Mr. Schnarken was at various high moments a cook, a life-guard, a burlesque actor, and a sculptor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  Vida was lenient to Carol at the surgical-dressing class; Mrs. Dave Dyer flattered her with questions about her health, baby, cook, and opinions on the war.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Away, cook, and deliver my message.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
15  No, you didn't, cook; but I'll tell you what I'm coming to, cook.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
16  The soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.
17  At home, my apron is coated with food remains within minutes of starting to cook.
18  Pour all but about 2 ounces of the beer over onions in skillet and cook them down over medium heat, stirring occasionally until all beer evaporates and onions are soft.
19  Each dinner, she likes to cook a thin slice of meat, usually veal or lamb, cut from the leg or ribs.
20  The cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
21  Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening.
22  I like to cook dishes with potatoes.
23  I was powerful lazy and comfortable -- didn't want to get up and cook breakfast.
24  We serve traditional French food cooked in a lighter way, keeping the presentation simple.
25  Raw vegetables contain more potassium than cooked ones.
26  In broiling or grilling, the food is cooked directly over a very hot flame.
27  She cooked her meals on a gas range.
28  When the fruit is mushy and cooked, remove from the heat.
29  This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.
30  Meat is often chopped up before being cooked.