Examples of like an oven in a Sentence
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The Dutch oven helps create a high and even level of heat within a smaller environment, almost like an oven within an oven.
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Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
The unit includes a vegetable roasting rack and is designed to work like an oven with the lid closed.
—New Atlas, 26 Feb. 2025
Just like an oven, aluminum foil is safe to use in an air fryer and can be used to minimize mess.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2024
End of carousel Nilton Santos stadium felt to many like an oven.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven.
—William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
When hung horizontally, cabinets open from the top down, kind of like an oven.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2022
Highland Park, which occupies 12 square miles of Lake County in Moraine Township, is shaped like Michigan — like an oven mitt.
—Christopher Borrelli, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
On the blog, people’s photos from around the world show surprising combinations, like an oven dial that fits perfectly into the instrument panel of an air conditioner.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2022
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Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
The unit includes a vegetable roasting rack and is designed to work like an oven with the lid closed.
—New Atlas, 26 Feb. 2025
Just like an oven, aluminum foil is safe to use in an air fryer and can be used to minimize mess.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2024
End of carousel Nilton Santos stadium felt to many like an oven.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven.
—William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
When hung horizontally, cabinets open from the top down, kind of like an oven.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2022
Highland Park, which occupies 12 square miles of Lake County in Moraine Township, is shaped like Michigan — like an oven mitt.
—Christopher Borrelli, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
On the blog, people’s photos from around the world show surprising combinations, like an oven dial that fits perfectly into the instrument panel of an air conditioner.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2022
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“Like an oven.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20an%20oven. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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