teakettle

Example Sentences

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Pieces turn up in her paintings that are immediately recognizable to fellow Nigerians: a “Senator suit,” cabin biscuits, jerrycans, painted teakettles, braided hairstyles, clonette dolls.

From New York Times

Dougherty’s mother has a copper teakettle that crossed the Atlantic with Finnish ancestors, and Dougherty’s son has already called dibs on the piece.

From Seattle Times

Dazed residents shuffled through the debris of their homes desperate to recover what they could: A bag of rice here, a teakettle there.

From New York Times

In response, 25 members of the group sent in sound clips ranging from the whistle of a teakettle to the sound of a toddler singing.

From New York Times

But the actors are up to the challenge of not so much sharing scenes as coexisting within them, particularly Timoteo as the embittered wife who roils like a teakettle that has been welded shut.

From New York Times