frying pan

Example Sentences

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Yet the country may be launching out of the frying pan and into the fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Inside Dorothy’s Kansan house, a once-shadowed frying pan on the wall now dangles front and center, as does a digitally added “Home Sweet Home” needlepoint nailed to the threshold.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Now imagine instead of a frying pan, it was the floor beneath you.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2024

"It's created by the frying pan and that chemical reaction."

From Salon • May 15, 2024

Behind them, a frying pan clanged as the last Mask slid to the floor.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer