OVEN in a Sentence

Learn OVEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

36 example sentences for OVEN, such as:

1. Cook in a very hot oven.
2. As soon as the cake is done, remove it from the oven.
3. Bake them in a warm oven until risen and golden brown.
4. Remove the cakes from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
5. The fire in the oven had died but the room was stifling hot.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVEN
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oven
 n.  kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  But the little oven in the hollow and Mrs. Sowerby's bounties were so satisfying that Mrs. Medlock and the nurse and Dr. Craven became mystified again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  She pushed poor Gretel out to the oven, from which flames of fire were already darting.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
3  And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
4  Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
5  The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker's oven.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In KING GRISLY-BEARD
6  I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like this were successively baked.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
7  The room was an oven and Scarlett's sweat-drenched clothes never dried but became wetter and stickier as the hours went by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  The fire in the oven had died but the room was stifling hot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies on a newspaper spread on the rack in the oven.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  She took from the oven a coffee-cake which she wanted to keep warm for supper, and wrapped it in a quilt stuffed with feathers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
11  "Put him in the oven, and maybe he will get warm and revive," said Amy hopefully.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  Sallie began to laugh, but Meg nodded and lifted her eyebrows as high as they would go, which caused the apparition to vanish and put the sour bread into the oven without further delay.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
13  Diana, as she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a little cake, baked on the top of the oven.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  In which case it meant--but what it meant to Mrs. Sands, when people missed their trains, and she, whatever she might want to do, must wait, by the oven, keeping meat hot, no one knew.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
15  Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Example Sentence:
1  Bake them in a warm oven until risen and golden brown.
2  She was so engrossed by/in the book that she forgot the cakes in the oven.
3  I think I remembered to switch the oven off but you'd better check.
4  She stood by the oven, rubbing one bare foot against the other.
5  Cook in a very hot oven.
6  She put a leg of mutton into the oven to roast it for supper.
7  A microwave oven can be a real lifesaver when you're pressed for time.
8  Remove the cakes from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
9  As soon as the cake is done, remove it from the oven.
10  Remove the dish from the oven, crack the salt crust and you will find the skin just peels off the fish.
11  Stuff the turkey, then put it into a pre-heated oven.
12  The best cooking utensil is the Dutch oven, the real ones that have legs and a rim around the lid to hold coals.
13  A buzzer or beeper is a signaling device, usually electronic, typically used in automobiles, household appliances such as a microwave oven, or game shows.
14  Turn off the oven, and let the pot remain undisturbed for an additional 10 minutes.
15  Kiln is thermally insulated chamber, or oven, in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.