cook for
Example Sentences
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No longer working in the fields, she now takes care of her two grandchildren, pouring water from bottles to cook for them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
To sweeten the deal: “I’ll cook for him. I would make him all his favorite dishes.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
While I still experiment with la grande cuisine, as Julia Child invited us to do every now and then, on those rare weekend occasions I cook for two or three, not 10 or more.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
As she astutely points out, it goes unmentioned in most of the supposedly authoritative cookbooks theoretically meant to tell Egyptian women the proper way to cook for the nation’s benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
My favorite part, though, was seeing Betty’s father cook for her instead of vice versa!
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
