Examples of cookhouse in a Sentence
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Six guest cabins are clustered along the edge of a pond just below the house, along with a communal cookhouse.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Cooking was done in a detached cookhouse, which also is open for viewing.
—Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
While a few men stood guard, scanning the forest edges, others moved through the tents and a cookhouse area, searching for anything that might provide a clue to who controls the mines.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Behind it, Spanish lime and gumbo limbo trees shade a cookhouse in the garden, a tranquil spot just steps from Duval, which was teeming with passengers from the giant Carnival Glory cruise ship.
—Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
Under the canopy of a koa tree, in an open-air cookhouse built of lava rocks gathered from the eruption of Mauna Loa in 1855, sit a scuba instructor, a lawyer, several retirees, and their children and grandchildren.
—Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
The cookhouse will offer the same services with the addition of gray water dumping.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
That metaphorical cookhouse is 300 feet away.
—David Beard, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2021
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Cooking was done in a detached cookhouse, which also is open for viewing.
—Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
While a few men stood guard, scanning the forest edges, others moved through the tents and a cookhouse area, searching for anything that might provide a clue to who controls the mines.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Behind it, Spanish lime and gumbo limbo trees shade a cookhouse in the garden, a tranquil spot just steps from Duval, which was teeming with passengers from the giant Carnival Glory cruise ship.
—Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
Under the canopy of a koa tree, in an open-air cookhouse built of lava rocks gathered from the eruption of Mauna Loa in 1855, sit a scuba instructor, a lawyer, several retirees, and their children and grandchildren.
—Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
The cookhouse will offer the same services with the addition of gray water dumping.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
That metaphorical cookhouse is 300 feet away.
—David Beard, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2021
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“Cookhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookhouse. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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