frying pans
- plural of frying pan.
Example Sentences
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There were caves everywhere running into the cloud, and at the entrances to the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stoves with frying-pans in their hands, frying snowballs for their husbands’ suppers.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
I noticed that high up near the ceiling, above the side-bench, there was a long shelf crammed with saucepans and frying-pans.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
For cooking purposes, the boat carried a coffee-pot, two tin cake-pans, which could be used as frying-pans as well as for other purposes, and two small tin pails.
From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Then had come necessaries: bedding, and heavier things; and then trifles—irons, saucepans, frying-pans, gowns, coats, tools—anything; anything by which a shilling could be obtained.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
