How to Use pressure cooker in a Sentence

pressure cooker

noun
  • The new boss has turned the office into a pressure cooker.
  • But his line had him in the pressure cooker.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The field can feel like a pressure cooker.
    — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Braun made both free throws in the pressure cooker.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Lift the steam rack out of the pressure cooker and fluff rice with a fork.
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 16 Aug. 2018
  • This is such a pressure cooker.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In the past, pressure cookers were a risky way to prepare food.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Pour the strained broth and meat back into the pressure cooker.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The two bombs were pressure cookers packed with ball bearings and steel nuts.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The slow cooker is the slow, all day method and the pressure cooker is the fast method.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • For a very long time, my mom’s go-to method of making dal was the pressure cooker.
    — Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The promise of a quick meal is the allure of any pressure cooker.
    — Bre Richey, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Both are more likely to do so in the pressure cooker that is the playoffs.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 6 May 2025
  • Meat and vegetables will cook in about the same time as the pressure cooker.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Now's the time to pick up this air fryer–pressure cooker hybrid.
    — Kate Tully Ellsworth, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The pressure cooker sautés, steams, slow cooks, warms and makes meats, eggs, rice, soup and yogurt.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 9 July 2020
  • Sanders and was an early adopter of his chicken pressure cookers and blend of herbs and spices.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Both are cheaper by the pound, and the latter is so easy to make in a slow or pressure cooker.
    — September 6, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In a pressure cooker or saucepan, combine the moong dal and 1 cup of water.
    — The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Some of the best soups, stews, braises and more have been products of my pressure cooker the last few years.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
  • This is the circular piece of rubber that runs around the top of your pressure cooker.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2023
  • At their apex, the band was indeed a kind of factory, and a pressure cooker too.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And a true hidden gem of the pressure cooker is the weeknight risotto.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
  • The pressure cooker mode is what Instant Pots are best known for.
    — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Out of such a pressure cooker arose King’s band, Gang of Four.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Still, the spices and the dal never seemed to meld as seamlessly as in the pressure cooker.
    — Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 15 Mar. 2018
  • With a push of a button on the easy-to-use control panel, the pressure cooker gets to work.
    — Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • That’s the trap set for Emily more than once in this minor pressure cooker of a movie.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Using the sauté mode on your high-pressure cooker, heat oil and cook the onion for about 5 minutes.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The Guilty is designed, programmed half to death, to be a pressure cooker.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021

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