How to Use teakettle in a Sentence

teakettle

noun
  • If the suede looks fine, rub the stain with lemon juice, and hold it in the steam from a boiling teakettle for a few minutes.
    Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The stage was bordered by mugs, a teakettle and even a low wooden table.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • In the kitchen area, the cabinets and refrigerator open, and there's a sink and a gas stove with a teakettle on top.
    Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 14 July 2021
  • White, crusty deposits form on teakettles and coffee pots.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2019
  • The office is spacious and airy but modestly equipped, with a wall of bookshelves and a teakettle on a side table.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Thompson sounded like a teakettle, and the water was still boiling.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 May 2016
  • The tea kettle The boiling water in a teakettle will kill germs, making this one of the easiest items to manage.
    Nicole Spector /, NBC News, 3 July 2018
  • The inventory ranges from teakettles to brass beds, all stored on shelves and available for two-day free shipping.
    John Taggart and Kevin Granville, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
  • To quick soak, simply boil water in a teakettle or on the stovetop, cover the cashews with the boiling water and set aside for 10-15 minutes. Drain.
    Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • Think of a teakettle whistling so loud that the noise interrupts conversations in the living room when my bedroom door is closed.
    Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Don't pour boiling water from your teakettle on the windows, the heat differential will crack them.
    Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2018
  • But one that functions properly should not sound like a wailing teakettle.
    Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The power for the lights, computers and teakettles in Mr. Kazaglis’s office increasingly comes from wind and gas, and not coal.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Marinade: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Boil water in a teakettle.
    Country Living, 28 Sep. 2010
  • Red teakettle and orange cutting board on island—both from Crate & Barrel.
    Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • My red teakettle looks gigantic balanced on top of the flimsy burner.
    Cynthia Romanowski, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Each object had an associated sound, like a meow paired with a cat or a whistle with a teakettle.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Each colorful tableau is crammed with weird and funny things: giant tomatoes, a waterfall shaped like a teakettle, gnomes in a longboat.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Rockets blew up—a lot—listing sideways, spinning tail over teakettle, exploding heads in the ground like ostriches.
    Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Even among those who live in its shadow, few understand nuclear power, and how it is harnessed to make the heat that makes the steam that turns the turbines that make electricity; the greatest force known to man used to heat his teakettle.
    Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • The Sheraton has signage in Mandarin and offers such in-room amenities as slippers and teakettles, and foods favored by Chinese travelers, such as congee and dumplings for breakfast.
    Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Not far from the mirror is a copper teakettle that belonged to Concord’s most famous female historical figure, Louisa May Alcott.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Every four years, when the Winter Olympics come around, TV viewers stop and notice men and women in funny looking pants furiously sweeping in front of what looks like a giant teakettle sliding on ice.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This is a particular shame for a symphony that wicks teakettle tensions from frequencies that are frequently lost.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The little boy was snoring, an intermittent teakettle whistle.
    Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Scientists compare the unusual mechanism to a whistling teakettle.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Hart creates a fully believable surveillance state born of the tracking of online purchases, and captures the dehumanization that follows when humans can receive star ratings just as easily as a teakettle (or a book).
    Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2019
  • After some time trapped between dimensions, Jeffries eventually resurfaces as giant talking teakettle, pushing his look even further into oddball territory.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2018

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