How to Use line cook in a Sentence

line cook

noun
  • There are restaurants where line cooks hardly see their presiding chefs.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Another cook took over the shopping, and a third cook had to bring him to the restaurant — meaning three out of four line cooks would get in late.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • So So Fed, a line cook walked in with even more groceries from another international store.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Awaiting sentencing, Kao worked as a line cook at a Cheesecake Factory.
    — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • One such immigrant story told in the film is that of Sekou Siby, a former prep and line cook at Windows from the Ivory Coast.
    — Emily Rella, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Reiner appeared as the kindly Albert Schnurr, a restaurant consultant and mentor to line cook Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson), on season 4 of the culinary drama.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026

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