hob
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
On a nearby cooking hob, Brogan is making a chicken curry.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
Food residue that is stuck on the hob will start to burn as soon as the hob is turned on.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
The lawsuit accuses Mr. Apkon of trying to regain his influence at the center so he can hob nob with its deep-pocketed donors and leverage those relationships into support for his new nonprofit, Reconsider.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Then she tidied up the Nursery and put the kettle on the hob.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
For perhaps 5,500 years man has started off with molten metal, which he has then cast, forged, rolled, extruded, hammered, machined, hobbed, drilled, milled and ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for the tramp of a sentry's hobbed boots over the sidewalks and the challenging call of another sentry round the corner the town was as silent as a town of tombs.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
After the dies are hobbed their front ends should be reamed with a taper reamer as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
Striking a match, there was his apron shrouding his hobbing foot.
From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
They include office buildings, workshops for hobbing, heat-treating, grinding and polishing cog-wheels and the complete gear transmissions.
From Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement by Vissering, Harry
But she soon found a cure for his passion, By hobbing or nobbing at dinner, With Paris, a Trojan of fashion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 by Various
In hobbing the dies it is necessary that they be all of equal length so that the hob may cut an equal depth in each, and may, therefore, work steadily and hob them true.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
