How to Use kitchen-sink in a Sentence

kitchen-sink

adjective
  • Twenty years later, this was a kitchen-sink game.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This was a kitchen-sink game for Payton, and an end-to-end masterclass in play-calling and game flow.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Not even in its top-of-the-line, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink trim level, the Capstone.
    — Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Like all kitchen-sink recipes, these cookies are designed to be customizable.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This is especially true with under-kitchen-sink plumbing penetrations.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Ketchum’s running bit fit right in with the kitchen-sink comedy of series creators Buck Henry and Mel Blanc.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That everything-and-the-kitchen-sink record collection informs the Alabaman’s signature genre-blending sound.
    — Lori Majewski, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Loaded with vegetables, beans and herbs, this pasta salad recipe has a maximalist, kitchen-sink vibe—perfect for summer, when gardens and farmers market stands are overflowing.
    — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 5 May 2026
  • The kitchen-sink approach sought to authorize a range of local and state authorities to take on the problem under the oversight of the state Department of Agriculture.
    — Mark Dee march 31, Idaho Statesman, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The kitchen-sink approach would have empowered a range of local and state authorities to take on the problem under the general oversight of the Department of Agriculture.
    — Mark Dee march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Even they’re relegated to little more than supporting players and symbolic representations of troubled youth straight out of a BBC kitchen-sink passion play.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The kitchen-sink drama follows five working-class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who grew up together in a tower block in Birmingham and are now in their thirties, finding themselves on increasingly divergent, and for most of them increasingly constrained, paths to the future.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The bag of tricks–Ikue Mori sample-trigger rituals, Orange Milk-adjacent MIDI choir theatrics, Valentina Magaletti kitchen-sink drum thwacking, dubby Sun Araw haze–is endless, but cohesive.
    — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026

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