Examples of “stove” in a Sentence

noun An appliance used for cooking food, usually with hotplates or burners.

• She left the soup simmering on the stove.
• Turn off the stove before you leave the house, please.
• He lit the gas stove and put the kettle on for tea.

noun A closed appliance that burns fuel to heat a room.

• We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove. — Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1913)
• They kept the cabin warm with a wood-burning stove.
• The little stove in the corner warmed the whole living room all winter.
• She loaded another log into the stove to keep the shed warm.