hob

Example Sentences

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Pans are precariously placed on a hob and she is stirring away.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

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

The cooker hood removes particles generated from the back rings of a hob more easily than from the front rings, where more pollutants can escape into the room.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2023

“We’re tolerable, sir, I thank you,” replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: “rather snappish, but not ’rageous.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë