Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Please take the pizza out of the oven.
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Over time, excavations show that people eventually dug cellars and caves into the former ground levels for ovens, fireplaces, and mills.—Andrew Paul Aug 7, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025 Heat the oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.—Sami Tamimi
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025 Biohackers would take the drug, and maybe even the punches, but their ovens are already set low.—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 Staff will then finish baking the items in ovens on site.—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for oven
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English ofen; akin to Old High German ofan oven and perhaps to Greek ipnos oven
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of oven was
before the 12th century
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