cookstove

noun cook·stove \ ˈku̇k-ˌstōv \

Examples: cookstove in a Sentence

Definition of cookstove

: a stove for cooking

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Examples of cookstove in a Sentence

a small cookstove that would be appropriate for an apartment

Recent Examples of cookstove from the Web

Even better cookstoves may not do much to improve health.

— The Economist, "Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard," 5 Apr. 2018
Black carbon like that from dirty cookstoves is thought to be the third most important cause of climate change after carbon dioxide and methane.

— The Economist, "Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard," 5 Apr. 2018
Grandma was cooking with kerosene on that cookstove on Dec. 18, 1949, when a gust of wind exploded through that wood house at 603 W. Farrall and blew the fiery oil all over the walls.

— gregg doyel, Indianapolis Star, "The Christmas Gregg Doyel learned the truth about his Grandma," 20 Dec. 2017
Prepare an 1860s breakfast working at the open hearth or cookstove.

— elaine rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Food and drink events," 10 Oct. 2017
Two of the awards the EPA's leadership rescinded - $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to thenonprofit organization Winrock International - supported the deployment of clean cookstoves in the developing world.

— juliet eilperin, chicagotribune.com, "Ex-Trump campaign aide with little environmental policy experience makes final call on EPA’s grants," 4 Sep. 2017
Two of the awards the EPA’s leadership rescinded — $1.1 million to the U.N. Foundation and a nearly $148,000 award to the nonprofit organization Winrock International — supported the deployment of clean cookstoves in the developing world.

— juliet eilperin, Washington Post, "EPA now requires political aide’s sign-off for agency awards, grant applications," 4 Sep. 2017
Good Time Stove Company Purchase a piece of history from this retailer, which stocks genuine nineteenth- and early twentieth-century parlor stoves and cookstoves restored to their original condition.

— john loecke, ELLE Decor, "2004 Home Magazine 100 Plus Secret Sources," 5 July 2012
Cleaner and more efficient energy sources can be part of the solution: A report in 2015 found that switching to solar lanterns and clean cookstoves could save more than $300 million a year in fuel costs at refugee camps.

— National Geographic, "One Electrician's Work Makes a Big Difference at a Hospital for Refugees," 14 July 2017

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