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kettle

A container for boiling liquids or cooking food. William cooked the beans in a kettle. A container for boiling water for tea; a teakettle. Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea. A pothole. The collective noun for a group of airborne hawks. A steam locomotive A kettledrum. A kettle hole. small type boiler

kettle

a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it the quantity a kettle will hold (= kettle hole) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

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Simple sentences

Don't use the iron, electric kettle, and electric stove at the same time.
The fire isn't very hot, so it won't heat the kettle.
The pot calls the kettle black.
She left the kitchen with the kettle boiling.
The kettle is whistling on the stove.
The kettle is steaming.
Tom put some water into the kettle and put it on the stove.
The witch told the servants to sharpen the knives, make a great fire ready, and hang a large kettle full of water over it.
This is a different kettle of fish.
Pour this kettle of hot tea over the frozen windshield.
The kettle started whistling.
Wait till the kettle begins to sing.
The kettle is boiling.
Put the kettle on.
Tom put a kettle on the stove.
Could you please put on the tea kettle?
Tom put the kettle on the stove.
The kettle is on the table.
I'll put the kettle on.
The kettle is full.
The kettle started to whistle.

Movie subtitles

There's a Battenberg cake by the kettle that wants a home.
Go and put the kettle on.
Putting the kettle on.
A fine kettle of fish!
Go light a fire on the stove. Boil water in the kettle.
Would you fetch me the kettle?
Oh Mr. Blake, I want you to know Homer Kettle my assistant.
Different kettle of fish.
The pot calling the kettle.
The pot calling the kettle black?
Kettle's the name.
Meet Pa Kettle, Bob.
Thanks, Mr Kettle.
He's Pa Kettle's boy.
I knew him when he didn't have a kettle to cook in.
Here's another nice kettle of fish you've pickled me in.
Boil water in the kettle.
Go and put the kettle on the fire while I get the brandy.
You're a devil are you, a kettle are you?
And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down the kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak the trumpet to the canoneer without the cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth!
I'll have to get the old kettle to boiling and.
We're quitting as soon as we get this kettle to headquarters.
You tell them guys the kettle's on the stove.
Kettle of fish. Your daughter.
Be sure and bring the kettle home, will you?
We're Hamburg kettle beaters we're working over there at Blohm 'n Voss merry as larks and always proper we chew tobacco and have dreadful thirst.
That wouldn't be the big pot calling the little kettle black, would it?
I have the kettle boiling for some tea.
More steam in the kettle!
Kettle's boiling.
Well, just fill the kettle.
One more kettle will do.

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