How to Use teakettle in a Sentence

teakettle

noun
  • No new home gift guide would be complete without a teakettle.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The stage was bordered by mugs, a teakettle and even a low wooden table.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • If the suede looks fine, rub the stain with lemon juice, and hold it in the steam from a boiling teakettle for a few minutes.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
  • If the suede looks fine, rub the stain with lemon juice, and hold it in the steam from a boiling teakettle for a few minutes.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But one that functions properly should not sound like a wailing teakettle.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Thompson sounded like a teakettle, and the water was still boiling.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 May 2016
  • My red teakettle looks gigantic balanced on top of the flimsy burner.
    — Cynthia Romanowski, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The inventory ranges from teakettles to brass beds, all stored on shelves and available for two-day free shipping.
    — John Taggart and Kevin Granville, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The office is spacious and airy but modestly equipped, with a wall of bookshelves and a teakettle on a side table.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In the kitchen area, the cabinets and refrigerator open, and there's a sink and a gas stove with a teakettle on top.
    — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 14 July 2021
  • Don't pour boiling water from your teakettle on the windows, the heat differential will crack them.
    — Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Each object had an associated sound, like a meow paired with a cat or a whistle with a teakettle.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Red teakettle and orange cutting board on island—both from Crate & Barrel.
    — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • Think of a teakettle whistling so loud that the noise interrupts conversations in the living room when my bedroom door is closed.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The mechanism is also similar to a teakettle, the authors write, which whistles as steam builds and is forced through a small hole.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The tea kettle The boiling water in a teakettle will kill germs, making this one of the easiest items to manage.
    — Nicole Spector /, NBC News, 3 July 2018
  • Rockets blew up—a lot—listing sideways, spinning tail over teakettle, exploding heads in the ground like ostriches.
    — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The little boy was snoring, an intermittent teakettle whistle.
    — Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • This is a particular shame for a symphony that wicks teakettle tensions from frequencies that are frequently lost.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Scientists compare the unusual mechanism to a whistling teakettle.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Caraway’s cookware, bakeware, linens, teakettles and more are all exclusively on offer at a 10% discount for subscribers.
    — wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Even among those who live in its shadow, few understand nuclear power, and how it is harnessed to make the heat that makes the steam that turns the turbines that make electricity; the greatest force known to man used to heat his teakettle.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • Not far from the mirror is a copper teakettle that belonged to Concord’s most famous female historical figure, Louisa May Alcott.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The Sheraton has signage in Mandarin and offers such in-room amenities as slippers and teakettles, and foods favored by Chinese travelers, such as congee and dumplings for breakfast.
    — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Hart creates a fully believable surveillance state born of the tracking of online purchases, and captures the dehumanization that follows when humans can receive star ratings just as easily as a teakettle (or a book).
    — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Surreal touches find their way into every room, from the trompe l’oeil clamshell painting by Michael Lombardo, hanging over the sofa, to a checkerboard teakettle fit for the Mad Hatter.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Every four years, when the Winter Olympics come around, TV viewers stop and notice men and women in funny looking pants furiously sweeping in front of what looks like a giant teakettle sliding on ice.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • After some time trapped between dimensions, Jeffries eventually resurfaces as giant talking teakettle, pushing his look even further into oddball territory.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Other home improvements include a Smeg teakettle, AeroGarden’s in-home herb garden, and Levoit’s air purifier.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 12 July 2023

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