How to Use percolator in a Sentence

percolator

noun
  • Just add hot water and coffee grounds and stick the percolator over the fire.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • On most mornings, Grant would get up first to put on the trusty percolator.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 12 July 2017
  • This is a somewhat classic hint from the days of percolators!
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Daydreams and long-term visions, yes, but also the dreams that your night-self drips like a percolator.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • There are still plenty of folks for whom coffee isn’t coffee unless it’s made in a percolator.
    — Outdoor Life Commerce Team, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • There’s one tubular percolator, a plastic lid, an on-and-off switch, a covert water tank, a filter, and a space for your mug.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
  • The filter basket, the perk tube and actual coffee maker are all made out of stainless steel, so this percolator is built to last.
    — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
  • These days, designs are a step beyond the basic electric kettle pour-over or mini stainless steel percolator.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • The bear box outside is stocked with cooking supplies, including pots, pans, a coffee percolator and utensils.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The new Bistro is a cross between old-school percolator and currently-fashionable pour-over coffee.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2012
  • And of course, an old-fashioned coffee percolator doesn’t require electricity.
    — Outdoor Life Commerce Team, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Instead of lugging a French press or percolator into the woods, bring cold brew concentrate or, for a crowd, La Colombe’s cold brew box.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2022
  • It’s traditionally made using a small metal percolator similar to the kind used for Vietnamese cà phê.
    — Meher Mirza, Saveur, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In one scene, when Jackie is feeling trapped, the editing splices in an insert of a boiling coffee percolator and an old news clip of the Berlin Wall.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The old-school brewing method involves placing coffee grounds and a filter over a coffee cup, then slowly pouring water over the grounds in a method somewhere between a french press and a percolator.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2016
  • Amazon brewed up some deals on our favorite coffee makers, including a Nespresso machine, cold brew maker, pour over and percolator.
    — Sara Beth Bolin, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The percolator is going, the old man said, materializing suddenly in the doorway.
    — David Means, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Rummage for old neon signs and vintage percolators at Remember When Antiques in Sunset?
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
  • Get into the fall spirit with us by making a steaming cup of joe with our favorite espresso percolator, then sip a tasty fall cocktail from the cutest under-$20 Halloween glasses.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2024
  • During the rehearsal, as coffee bubbled in a percolator, everyone tried to inhabit the characters, old and new, even when the characters voiced opinions that diverged from the actors’ own.
    — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • All go into the ever-churning internal percolator that, for artists, will eventually spark inspiration for creative output.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 14 July 2023
  • But these businesses are also a percolator of revolutionary thought leadership.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
  • All manner of appliances are celebrated here, including blenders, razors, hair dryers, coffee percolators and an impressive array of waffle irons.
    — Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For much of the 20th century, coffee in the United States was cheap and almost forgettable, either instant granules dissolved in hot water or weak brews coaxed from percolators.
    — Nick El Hajj, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • At Industrious’s Lever House location, instead of, say, an unattended percolator with a pot of coffee that slowly burns over the course of the morning, there’s a barista ready to make your drink of choice.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Some people want to know how folks in the Middle Ages brushed their teeth; others want to know how to extract starch from tubers like sweet potatoes and arrowroot or how to restore a coffee percolator, an old radio, or a pair of leather shoes.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • Confident these story mechanics would hold the audience’s attention, Gilligan and his collaborators had the freedom to slow down, to linger, to teach viewers to love the rhythm of a coffee percolator.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Pluribus is all percolator, less interested in moving through story than in reacquainting us with the thrill of watching something unfold, the disquiet that comes from sitting too long with a feeling, and the strange clarity that emerges when your brain syncs to its rhythm.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Back in 2014, Pantone teamed up with Whitbread Wilkinson to release electric coffee percolators in some of their signature colors.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2018
  • The set includes a mid-century modern home with retro rooster wallpaper, a coffee percolator and vintage ‘50s Felix the Cat wall clock, as well as a sleek ‘50s diner with roller-skating waitresses.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023

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