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How to use stove in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stove means a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. Example: “The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.”

Examples of stove by meaning

nounA heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

  • Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

verbTo heat or dry, as in a stove.

  • to stove feathers
  • The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.1975, William Geoffrey Potter, Uses of Epoxy Resins, page 39

verbTo keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

  • to stove orange trees

verbTo jam; to sprain.

  • to stove a finger

More sentences with stove

  • The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.From the entry foot
  • I'm going to burn the stove now so the room will start warming up.From the entry burn
  • It takes a lot longer to boil eggs in a haybox than on a stove.From the entry haybox
  • I can't work: the pain in my knee is stoving me up.From the entry stove up
  • The wood stove was burning, giving off plenty of heat.From the entry burn
  • The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.From the entry have
  • The dinner is cooking on the stove.From the entry cook
  • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.From the entry heat
  • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.From the entry slave
  • There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.From the entry kettle
  • You can try boiling water for that spaghetti on the hot stove, but it might take a few hours.From the entry hot stove
  • He put the soup on the stove to reheat.From the entry reheat
  • Be careful not to overprime the stove.From the entry overprime
  • The stove vents to the outside.From the entry vent
  • The soup simmered on the stove.From the entry simmer
  • The heat radiates from a stove.From the entry radiate
  • Ba hovers over a stove in the well-lit room, glancing when he hears the creak underfoot.2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN. From the entry bánh xèo
  • The house had tatami mats, pechka (a Russian stove) and samovar (a Russian water boiler for tea).2023, Kumi Tateoka, “Vladivostok as а Meeting Point between West and East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Around Years of Siberian…. From the entry pryanik
  • Put zapiekankas in the stove and bake until the cheese is melted (about 10 minutes).2022, Karolina Klesta, Patryk Klesta, “Zapiekanka: Polish Sandwich”, in Polish Foodies: Traditional Recipes, →ISBN, “Snacks” section, page…. From the entry zapiekanka
  • He put down his coffee and popped open the heavy iron griddle on the stove.2017, A.R. Barley, chapter 22, in On Duty (Smoke & Bullets), Toronto, Ont.: Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN. From the entry waffley
  • Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!2016, Courtney Sanchez, “Retro Stove”, in DIY Box Creations: Fun and Creative Projects to Make out of Really Big Boxes!, Lake Forest…. From the entry asterisk
  • The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove.2015, John Zimm, John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack. From the entry cookee
  • Nuraeni put the stove, the plate rack, and buckets beneath a melinjo tree behind their home.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 76. From the entry melinjo
  • The counter supported a portable gas stove and a bucket of rainwater.2009, Margaret Donnelly, The Song of the Goldencocks. From the entry sinkless
  • Each apartment was heated individually by kachelofens, the typical ceramic stoves indigenous to this region.2000, Norbert Schoenauer, 6,000 Years of Housing, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN. From the entry kachelofen
  • In the midst of the men a black upright stove sends out its heat.1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 28, in The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, published 2000, page 470. From the entry incision
  • Water was heated either on the gas stove, or on a wall mounted gas-fired "geyser" heater.1998, Gordon S Riess, Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International Adventures. From the entry geyser
  • Karen Aileron looks distractedly out the window, a tofuburger sizzling in the skillet on the stove.1997, Gilbert Sorrentino, Pack of lies. From the entry tofuburger
  • Inside is one cozy room, half the kitchen area taken up by an ornate footed stove.1990, Sharlene Baker, Finding Signs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry footed
  • At the stove, Elizabeth Lowell stands overpouring boiling water from a saucepan into a dripolator and missing.1981, Donald Newlove, Those Drinking Days, Horizon Press, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry lemonyellow
  • Then hurrying to lift a pot of pirohy from the stove, she scalded her arm.1978–1979, V. S. Koban, “The Sorrows of Marienka”, in Slovakia, volume XXVIII, numbers 51–52, West Paterson, N.J.: The Slovak League of…. From the entry pirohy
  • HONAN NEW COOKING STOVE--Scores of new-type cooking stoves have been introduced into rural Honan Province.[1972, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry Zhenping
  • Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23. From the entry bog
  • Stoves used by campers were too heavy and operated only on white gasoline.1953, United States, Army, Quartermaster Corps, Erna Risch, Chester L. Kieffer, The Quartermaster Corps, Organization, Supply, and…. From the entry white gasoline
  • The laboratory-type spring-driven movement is housed in a strong die-cast case finished in cream stove enamel.1950 September, “Notes and News: The Jackson Timer”, in Railway Magazine, page 642. From the entry stove enamel

Meaning of stove

  1. noun A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
  2. noun A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
  3. noun A stovetop, with hotplates.

Full definition of stove

Questions about stove in a sentence

How do you use stove in a sentence?
Stove is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.”
What is a short sentence with stove?
“to stove feathers”
What does stove mean?
Stove means a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stove (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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