chip pan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One witness said it smelled like a chip pan, like the smell of grease heating up.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024
According to Mr Tordoff's daughter, Karen McKinley, her father, a retired council worker, had fallen asleep and left a chip pan unattended.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023
York father-of-two Barry Tordoff ended up homeless following the blaze which was caused by an unattended chip pan.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023
She met David Beckett after he appeared as an odd-job man who saved Deirdre's daughter Tracy from a chip pan fire in 1991.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2015
The only thing in the whole world to be glad about was that Mary had to fill the chip pan all by herself.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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