SKILLET in a Sentence

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For SKILLET, below is one of 5 sentences:
At first the cooking was done out-of-doors, in the old-fashioned, primitive style, in pots and skillets placed over a fire.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKILLET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
skillet
 n.  long-handled stewing pan or saucepan sometimes having legs; vessel for stewing meat
Classic Sentence:
1  Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  She found half a pone of hard corn bread in the skillet and gnawed hungrily on it while she looked about for other food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  At first the cooking was done out-of-doors, in the old-fashioned, primitive style, in pots and skillets placed over a fire.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.