wood stove

Example Sentences

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A wood stove heated our home, and we had kerosene lanterns at the ready in case of a power outage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"It had a wood stove and no running water and a tin roof, rusted. It was a funky little shack."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

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 went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson