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Kettle in sentence

47 examples of Kettle in a sentence

Another item that I find fascinating is the electric tea kettle, which I found out that you don't do tea kettles in this country, really, do you?
But that's really big in the U.K. Ninety-seven percent of households in the United Kingdom own an electric tea kettle.
Sixty-five percent of Brits admit to over-filling their kettle when they only need one cup of tea.
So this kettle here is an example of one where it actually has two reservoirs.
If we could take a gigantic kettle, the kind you could plug into a power socket, an electric one, and put those 20 billion metric tons of water in it, how much power would you need to have this water evaporated?
A really big kettle.
A gigantic kettle, right?
My dad was a roofer, construction guy, he owned small businesses, and at 80, he was ready to retire and his tar kettle was my inheritance.
Now, a tar kettle doesn't sound like much of an inheritance.
The first of the Italian rip-offs of the French soft porn blockbuster (though it might be interesting to note that the boot-shaped country actually got their first with Cesare Canevari's 1968 IO, EMMANUELLE starring Erika Blanc) is a very different kettle of fish than the sleazy sequels provided by the late, questionably great Joe D'Amato.
His wife dumps a tea kettle of boiling water all over his face and body, resulting in death, & the prostitution clan come looking for Nami to pay the debt of losing a very important member of their organization.
Ethereal off key male voices, intermittent kettle drums with the odd bass drum to raise tension, check.
Dusk till Dawn was a fairly competent film full of everything you need in a good action flick including a bizzare twist i.e. all the locals in the bar are vampires.Dusk till dawn 2:Texas blood money though was a whole different kettle of fish.It is a poorly thought out ploy to cash in on a successful movie.Don't get me wrong i'm a huge fan of bad films and commend them if they are in any way inventive or resourcefull,this wasn't.Texas blood money also made use of annoying camera shots it persevered with every point of view shot possible.We had the shot from the pov of a man doing press-ups,we had the shot through the red eyes of a bat and to top it off the pov from a fan moving left to right.Overall it is a highly frustrating film that should never have been made,their certainly shouldn't have been a third installment.Never see this if you haven't,and if you have i feel for you and hope the counciling is going well.
Um, wasn't she a purportedly hard-boiled career gal in NYC? Pot, kettle?)
Sure they might not be as well organised or impressionable as his well-known flicks but this different kettle has certain sincereness about them.
I even played the kettle drums when the regular drummer did not show up for services.
But the establishment’s efforts to put a lid on the seething Thai kettle appear untenable.
Upon a round table covered with a cloth stood a Chinese tea service and a silver kettle over a spirit lamp.
Then, after having placed a kettle on the grate, she sat down before the sideboard.
She had pulled up the last leeks from the garden, gathered the sorrel, and was just then cleaning the vegetables, while a large kettle on the fire was heating the water for the men's baths when they should return.
We aren't in a kettle yet!""In a kettle, no," the Canadian shot back, "but in an oven for sure.
And after presenting arms, during which the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs, all the guns were lowered.
Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
"Now for breakfast we shall want a frying-pan" - (Harris said it was indigestible; but we merely urged him not to be an ass, and George went on) - "a tea-pot and a kettle, and a methylated spirit stove."
After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle.
We put the kettle on to boil, up in the nose of the boat, and went down to the stern and pretended to take no notice of it, but set to work to get the other things out.
That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river.
You get near the kettle, so that it can overhear you, and then you shout out, "I don't want any tea; do you, George?" to which George shouts back, "Oh, no, I don't like tea; we'll have lemonade instead - tea's so indigestible."
Upon which the kettle boils over, and puts the stove out.
So we filled our kettle with Thames backwater, and boiled it; and very careful we were to see that it did boil.