COOK in a Sentence

Learn COOK 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.
299 example sentences for COOK, such as:
1. Every cook praises his own broth.
2. Away, cook, and deliver my message.
3. First catch your hare then cook him.
4. The cook was an expert at making sauces.
5. The cook will prepare whatever you wish.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COOK
cook
 v.  prepare for eating by applying heat
 v.  transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Our cook is the broad wife of the Wilkes butler, and he was over last night with the news that the engagement would be announced tonight and Cookie told us this morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Mrs. Meade will give you whatever chaperonage you need and I'll send over old Betsy to cook for you, if Miss Pitty wants to take her servants with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  They tore down the fences and burned them to cook with and the barns and the stables and the smokehouse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She is down with la grippe and so is her cook.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  After Suellen and Will married and Carreen went off to Charleston to the convent, Ashley, Melanie and Beau came to Atlanta, bringing Dilcey with them to cook and nurse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  Johnnie Gallegher was standing in the doorway of the miserable shack that served as cook room for the little lumber camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  She stepped over to the cook shack and looked in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
10  I should have said Carry Fisher's cook was enough to account for it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  Mr. Schnarken was at various high moments a cook, a life-guard, a burlesque actor, and a sculptor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  Vida was lenient to Carol at the surgical-dressing class; Mrs. Dave Dyer flattered her with questions about her health, baby, cook, and opinions on the war.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Away, cook, and deliver my message.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
15  No, you didn't, cook; but I'll tell you what I'm coming to, cook.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  Add the onion and cook for three minutes.
2  Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
3  They would spin and weave cloth, cook and attend to the domestic side of life.
4  She wants to become a professional cook.
5  First catch your hare then cook him.
6  Mother lit the gas and began to cook the dinner.
7  Every cook praises his own broth.
8  The cook was an expert at making sauces.
9  The cook brought in a fresh batch of homemade cakes.
10  In half an hour she had managed to cook up some delicious chilli.
11  The cook will prepare whatever you wish.
12  If you're too tired to cook, let's go to a restaurant.
13  I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
14  The food in the life boat gradually had to dwindle away to nothing; in the end, they ate the ship's cook.
15  Today the head cook was shaking, for the notable chef Julia Child was coming to dinner.