How to Use cookstove in a Sentence

cookstove

noun
  • Bring a cookstove, as no fires are allowed along the ridgeline.
    Neil Norman, Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The breakfast is cooked on a broad Queen Atlantic cookstove fueled by oak and poplar.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Even better cookstoves may not do much to improve health.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Prepare an 1860s breakfast working at the open hearth or cookstove.
    Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Four of the six people living here are in their tents now, next to their cookstoves, two by two, warming up and preparing their suppers.
    Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • In small kitchen huts, customers light a special stove and insert the briquette—an eco-friendly solution to the demand for wood to fuel cookstoves.
    Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • 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, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Ninety percent of that decrease came from changes in cookstove and heating technology.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The people who have upgraded their cookstoves and heating appliances to cleaner-burning fuels have done so in areas where the switch was relatively easy to make.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Seals spent over a decade working on clean cookstove programs in the developing world, where pollution from reliance on burning wood, coal, and dung for cooking kills 3.8 million people each year.
    Jonathan Mingle, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This burns cleaner, creating 90 percent less pollution than an open fire and 70 percent less than a traditional cookstove.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Dec. 2022
  • According to the company, Mukuru’s stove emits 90% less pollution than cooking over an open fire, and 70% less pollution than using a traditional cookstove.
    Kyla Mandel, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Now back in Seattle, the energetic 76-year-old biologist is ordering a new cookstove and other necessities to stock his plywood refuge on Cooper Island.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Although most of the household particulate pollution reduction seen in China was a result of a cookstove technology shift, the paper also studied the effects of substituting out coal and biomass in home heating.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The idea is to reduce net global emissions by bolstering charities that promote initiatives like preserving and planing forests or supplying clean cookstoves to families.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2020
  • 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, 5 July 2012
  • Projects often involve planting trees, preventing deforestation, installing solar panels or handing out cleaner-burning cookstoves.
    Maxine Joselow, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2020

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