Example sentences for: cook

How can you use “cook” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "The US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has raised the issue twice in the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook," it said, adding that Washington's involvement has added to the British government's dilemma.

  • And when, in 1820, Phillip King landed at the Endeavour River, in the north of what is now Queensland, where Cook's glossary was obtained, he found that the local Aborigines did not recognize the word, using a name something like menuah instead.

  • One also wonders why Cook spends so much time selling books and seminars if he can make $20,000 a day with just 15 minutes of work.

  • Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.

  • It is wrong to equate anti-communism with opposition to "all public improvements," and Cook does tend to caricature all anti-communism under the rubric Red Scare.


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