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How to use toaster in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Toaster means an electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread. Example: “My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread.”

Examples of toaster by meaning

nounA low-end or outdated personal computer.

  • I know; this probably goes against the grain; after all, you hung onto that old toaster for three years, and now it makes a darn good doorstop.2000, Jennifer Fulton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 15
  • On the technical side, we had only the old “toaster” Macintosh computers as our environment (only black and white and 512 by 480 screen resolution) and a variety of IBM PCs or equivalents.2005, Clark N. Quinn, Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 65

nounA self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.

  • The Freedom Toaster was developed with backing from Mark Shuttleworth as a vending-machine-style dispenser of free digital products, including Ubuntu Linux.2008, Michael Jang, Ubuntu Certified Professional Study Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 9

nounAn EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive.

  • The origin of the design led railroaders to dub the units “meatballs,” and its boxy appearance inspired railfans to call them “toasters.”2018 March 29, Eric Berger, “Amtrak AEM-7 Preserved at Illinois Railway Museum”, in Railfan & Railroad
  • Sometimes affectionately referred to as “toasters” and “Swedish meatballs” due to their compact, boxy design and Swedish origins, the AEM-7s first entered service in May 1980 and since then have traveled more than 220 million miles.2016 June 20, “A Fond Farewell to the AEM-7”, in Amtrak: History of America's Railroad, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022

More sentences with toaster

  • My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread.From the entry on the blink
  • Acme Co. is trying to rebrand their line of toasters under the Bewidget name.From the entry rebrand
  • I replaced the broken spring and now the toaster is good to go.From the entry good to go
  • The toast is in the toaster - when it pops up it will be ready.From the entry pop up
  • He tried to dry his phone in the toaster. What a prannet!From the entry prannet
  • The current runs to the toaster.From the entry run
  • “I’m a smart toaster, and I’m collecting data on how many times the toaster is used.”2018 December 18, Joe Pinsker, “The Coming Commodification of Life at Home”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2019. From the entry smart
  • The toaster is broken and salt is dandruffing my wool sweater.2014, Kaethe Schwehn, Tailings: A Memoir, page 82. From the entry dandruff
  • Unbelievably, the toaster disappeared almost immediately after the plate turned up.2014, Mark Cunnington, “Part I: Lest We Forget”, in The Fear, [St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex]: Trio Publishing, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry toasterless
  • Older people with poor dietary habits ("tea and toasters") may develop iron deficiency.2003, Robert K. Murray et al., Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 586. From the entry tea and toaster
  • Shopping to replace a toaster, I notice couples in the department store, discussing their bridal registries.1999, Wendy Bishop, “Where I Live(d)”, in When We Say We’re Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, Salt Lake City, Ut.: University of Utah…. From the entry toasterless
  • As robots went, they were about as smart as a toaster set on “medium to light.”1998 April, Don DeBrandt, chapter 4, in Steeldriver, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry tourguide
  • Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything.1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Howard Beele (Peter Finch). From the entry radial
  • Prepare prebaked froz­en waffles in toaster or oven according to package direc­tions.1966 September 20, “Sandwich Idea”, in Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, 99th year, number 225, Lincoln, Neb., page 10. From the entry waffley
  • I was baking some chicken nuggets in the toaster oven.2010, Edward Ugel, I'm with Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, page 148. From the entry nuggie
  • Toasters and microwaves were Velcroed to kitchen counters.2008, Sean Murphy, The Time of New Weather, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry velcro
  • In every department store you see newlyweds, their honeymoon tans fading, returning sorbet makers and salad shooters, toasters and tea kettles.1994 September, Cincinnati Magazine, page 38. From the entry salad shooter
  • Like now the war is over and we are gonna have all kinds electric things again, toasters, curlers, wash-machines, flatirons, everything.1945 October 28, “About--; --ENTERPRISE”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry wash-machine
  • The best I could do was force myself to place a slice of bread in the toaster and then reluctantly nibble on the crust.2007, Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, editors, Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringing Depression to…. From the entry icecream shop
  • Electric kettles, hair-driers, toasters and irons all have heating elements which work in a similar way to those in an electric fire.2000, Terry Jennings, Science Success, volume 4, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry hair-drier
  • Several probably were "tea and toasters."1964, B. A. Cooper, L. Lowenstein, “Relative Folate Deficiency of Erythrocytes in Pernicious Anemia and its Correction with…. From the entry tea and toaster
  • After these little ribbies are through with the skillet, we will put them in toaster and sizzle ’em and brown ’em and smoke ’em right in the fire.1935, The Rural New-Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Rural Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 50. From the entry ribbie

Meaning of toaster

  1. noun An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.
  2. noun A toasting fork.
  3. noun A fish ready for toasting.

Full definition of toaster

Questions about toaster in a sentence

How do you use toaster in a sentence?
Toaster is used as a noun. For example: “My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread.”
What is a short sentence with toaster?
“Several probably were "tea and toasters."”
What does toaster mean?
Toaster means an electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toaster (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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