wood stove

Example Sentences

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The family lived in a one-story house with a tin roof, a wood stove and no indoor plumbing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Johnson grew up on the tribe’s reservation in the 1950s in a cabin with no running water, heated with a wood stove.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2023

"We were already putting things on top of the table, on top of the wood stove, but it didn't help."

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

When Russian airstrikes on Kyiv repeatedly knocked out the power over the winter, zoo officials crowdfunded fuel for a wood stove that kept the gorilla warm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2023

We placed buckets of water on the cast-iron wood stove in the kitchen so we could have warm water for washing and shaving.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin