cook up
Example Sentences
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"By the way, your father's cooking up some business deal with the parents of one of the kids in your class. We're having the whole family over for dinner next week."
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“A deer got killed on the highway. My grandpa cooked up a stew. What’s the big deal?”
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No matter which schemes opposing defenses cooked up, Seattle wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba found ways to break free and torch them downfield.
Goodwin’s department is cooking up plans to put the fountain in storage, saying there is a safety emergency.
Employees bought a few boxes, cooked up the gooey meals in a corporate kitchen and dug in.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.