How to Use pressure cooker in a Sentence

pressure cooker

noun

• The new boss has turned the office into a pressure cooker.
• The bowl then was ready to be placed in the pressure cooker.
  — cleveland, 29 June 2020
• Lift the steam rack out of the pressure cooker and fluff rice with a fork.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 16 Aug. 2018
• The slow cooker is the slow, all day method and the pressure cooker is the fast method.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• The boys threw pipe bombs and an I.E.D. made out of a pressure cooker at the police.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2020
• That has simply turned up the heat in the pressure cooker.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Pour the strained broth and meat back into the pressure cooker.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The extra day in the pressure cooker made things worse.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Feb. 2018
• Out of such a pressure cooker arose King’s band, Gang of Four.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• The promise of a quick meal is the allure of any pressure cooker.
  — Bre Richey, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• For a very long time, my mom’s go-to method of making dal was the pressure cooker.
  — Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 15 Mar. 2018
• This is one of the youngest teams in the league, so how are those guys going to hold up in the pressure cooker of the playoffs?
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the kitchen of the Huron Village spot, the soup is made in a pressure cooker and simmered for 10 minutes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Both are cheaper by the pound, and the latter is so easy to make in a slow or pressure cooker.
  — September 6, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• Still, the spices and the dal never seemed to meld as seamlessly as in the pressure cooker.
  — Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 15 Mar. 2018
• Meat and vegetables will cook in about the same time as the pressure cooker.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
• With a push of a button on the easy-to-use control panel, the pressure cooker gets to work.
  — Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• The two bombs were pressure cookers packed with ball bearings and steel nuts.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
• Some of the best soups, stews, braises and more have been products of my pressure cooker the last few years.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
• It’s the jarring whistle of the pressure cooker as dal softens on the stove.
  — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
• Sure, Instant Pots (and pressure cooker recipes) are all the rage right now.
  — Laura Denby, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2021
• The pressure cooker sautés, steams, slow cooks, warms and makes meats, eggs, rice, soup and yogurt.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 9 July 2020
• The Guilty is designed, programmed half to death, to be a pressure cooker.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021
• To cook in a pressure cooker: Press Cancel, lock the lid in place and move the pressure valve to Sealing.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2021
• The pressure cooker mode is what Instant Pots are best known for.
  — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• This 12-in-1 pressure cooker and air fryer is a great gift for the foodie in your life.
  — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• That’s the trap set for Emily more than once in this minor pressure cooker of a movie.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
• Using the sauté mode on your high-pressure cooker, heat oil and cook the onion for about 5 minutes.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2022
• The mechanism is like a pressure cooker, Li says, with weighty water acting as the release valve.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• That timeline is meant to ensure that any recommendation is made outside the pressure cooker of an election cycle, in which all political parties have come out against the deal.
  — Kayla Tausche and Matt Egan, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024