noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kitchen cupboard
▪ The kitchen cupboards were empty.
a kitchen drawer (=in a piece of kitchen furniture)
▪ There's some string in that kitchen drawer.
a kitchen gardenBritish English (= where you grow fruit and vegetables)
▪ The kitchen garden supplies vegetables to the manor house.
a kitchen knife (=a long knife used for cutting vegetables etc)
▪ Every chef has his own set of kitchen knives.
bath/beach/kitchen towel
▪ She dried her hands on the kitchen towel.
bedroom/kitchen etc wall
▪ We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue.
bedside/kitchen/dining-room table
▪ They were chatting around the kitchen table.
kitchen cabinet
kitchen garden
kitchen roll
kitchen sink drama
kitchen units
▪ fitted kitchen units
silver/aluminium/kitchen foil
▪ Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake.
soup kitchen
table/kitchen scrapsAmerican English
the bathroom/kitchen/bedroom etc floor
▪ I’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.
the kitchen/bath/garden tap
▪ The water coming out of the kitchen tap had an odd smell.
the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom etc door
▪ The kitchen door opened and Jake walked in.
the kitchen/car etc window
▪ She had left the kitchen window open.
the kitchen/dining/bedroom/bathroom area
▪ The kitchen area is rather small.
the kitchen/sitting-room etc clock
▪ Harry glanced at the kitchen clock and saw that he was late.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
▪ He repaired to his kitchen area, flagrantly disregarding the woman who was being sick three rows behind the two men.
▪ The attendant, now adding a sulk to his sullenness, had shuffled off to the kitchen area.
▪ There was no sign of any of his colleagues, but the door to the kitchen area was sealed and padlocked.
▪ This suited Zephyr; she immediately checked out the kitchen area.
▪ The kitchen area accords with the latest food hygiene regulations.
▪ The kitchen area also opened off the room, without a door.
cabinet
▪ Being all in one, the Concept slides neatly between kitchen cabinets without gaps, adjusting to fit flush with the worktop.
▪ If you have wall space that needs filling, look in your kitchen cabinets first before running out to buy something.
▪ With adjustable height skid feet and flush fitting sides, the Phase 2 fits easily into your kitchen cabinets.
▪ There is no kitchen table, no kitchen cabinets.
▪ Think of the man who has to hang a kitchen cabinet in a frame house.
▪ One family was loading kitchen cabinets, a sink, a refrigerator, a sofa and a radiator on to a large truck.
▪ Clean refrigerator and kitchen cabinet fronts.
▪ This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
chair
▪ She was kneeling on a kitchen chair, her long hair trailing in the margarine, when she heard the steps.
▪ It could happen right now, sitting on a white kitchen chair in a cool breeze and drinking iced tea.
▪ Maggie sat huddled on a kitchen chair and Phoebe held her hand.
▪ There was an available seat, a metal kitchen chair with its back snapped off.
▪ There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.
▪ Meir Ahronson led me into his bedroom, sat down on the edge of the bed, and indicated a kitchen chair.
▪ Dilwyn Bowles's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair.
▪ Minna was sitting on a kitchen chair near the window.
counter
▪ She leaned against the kitchen counter.
▪ Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter, buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.
▪ In London, my kitchen counter is as cluttered as anybody's.
▪ Wipe kitchen counters after each meal.
▪ She leaves like four bucks on the kitchen counter - though it's since gone down to three-fifty.
▪ He had his guest sit at the kitchen counter.
▪ A second, designed to be installed above a kitchen counter, would be a television and electronic recipe holder.
▪ Before opening it, he grudgingly used the microwave to heat a cup of cocoa, then sat at the kitchen counter.
door
▪ He had gone out through the kitchen door.
▪ Cantor closed the kitchen door behind him.
▪ Frankie stared through the banisters, willing the kitchen door to open.
▪ Susan took off her traveling dress and washed in the basin by the kitchen door.
▪ For, as his master opened the kitchen door, there, in eager anticipation, stood Azor.
▪ On the other side of the kitchen door, a cupboard squeaked open.
▪ He edged his way to the kitchen door and could see a black profile through the frosted glass.
▪ He reached the kitchen door just as a bright rectangle of light slowly spread across the upstairs wall.
drawer
▪ Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.
▪ He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio.
▪ Recently, I found a roll of undeveloped film in a kitchen drawer.
▪ It is somewhere in the kitchen drawer with the 60-watt bulbs.
▪ I then removed every knife and sharp instrument from the kitchen drawer.
▪ He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer.
floor
▪ I bet her kitchen floor is surgically sterile.
▪ He did a load of laundry, ran a mop across the kitchen floor.
▪ She remembered the great flagged kitchen floor at the Bassetts' house and her heart warmed.
▪ Evidently, some one has been living beneath my kitchen floor, taking comfort in the heat of my boiler.
▪ The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor.
▪ Wash and, if necessary, wax kitchen floor.
▪ Mrs Palichuk planted her stockinged feet squarely on the white and beige tiles of the kitchen floor, and looked around her.
▪ Officers returned Saturday and noticed that the kitchen floor had been recently scrubbed.
garden
▪ At the risk of sounding smug, my ornamental kitchen garden gave me no such problems.
▪ At the end of the kitchen garden, by the stile to the open fields, he had looked back.
▪ The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible.
▪ He almost laughs when he sees what it really is - a small lawn, with a rockery and kitchen garden beyond.
▪ He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden, old and nearly dead from starvation.
▪ I got on with my kitchen garden.
▪ But we don't maintain the kitchen gardens and the greenhouses anymore.
▪ A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park, creating lakes and the kitchen gardens.
knife
▪ Dara seized a kitchen knife and tried to defend himself, but the thugs overpowered him.
▪ Police found Ronald Frazier, 30, wounded in the neck, apparently stabbed with a kitchen knife.
▪ Rachael had hidden a large kitchen knife in his jeans pocket and smuggled it in unchecked.
▪ After a few minutes he managed to crack open the lock with a kitchen knife.
▪ Still disbelieving its reality, I searched for a kitchen knife.
▪ Detectives hunting Damilola's killers have found a kitchen knife with cloth wrapped around the handle and a broken bottle.
▪ Scrambling, she got to her feet and made a grab at the kitchen knife at the sink.
▪ A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife.
range
▪ The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.
▪ He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range, took me on his knee and read me a story.
▪ The company cooker, a kitchen range on wheels, was being stoked up.
sink
▪ The only thing missing is the kitchen sink!
▪ I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.
▪ She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink.
▪ Clean kitchen sink and wipe range surfaces, including the microwave.
▪ The baths, kitchen sink and children's wash basin have conventionally sized traps and wastes.
▪ Karen was at the kitchen sink.
▪ What comes next, the kitchen sink?
soup
▪ The evening programme is aimed at teenagers and features a live band and soup kitchen.
▪ Or, George Bush visiting a soup kitchen and maybe Jeane Kirkpatrick at a boxing match.
▪ On every street corner a newspaper billboard proclaimed it, in every soup kitchen queue people discussed it.
▪ We could not have created this soup kitchen without busting the unions.
▪ It's like a queue for a soup kitchen.
▪ San Francisco reported soup kitchens running out of food and food pantries unable to keep up stocks of high-protein items.
▪ Moscow is a city of soup kitchens and strip shows, of Cadillacs and corruption.
table
▪ Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.
▪ She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.
▪ All week-end long, it sat on the kitchen table staring at him like a cold watery eye.
▪ Bleakly, he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin.
▪ He laid her on the kitchen table while he called the doctor.
▪ Mary sat with her elbows on the kitchen table.
▪ We sit at her kitchen table and eat cookies from a box.
unit
▪ Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.
▪ Take, for example, a small company producing fitted kitchen units.
▪ There's a vast range of kitchen units available in a choice of materials.
▪ Can be integrated into kitchen units.
▪ It's also the same height as your kitchen units for a perfect fit.
▪ A cooker and four kitchen units were destroyed, and the remainder of the flat badly smoke logged.
▪ That's when Simon got the idea of making kitchen units, too.
▪ The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive.
wall
▪ These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.
▪ The outside yard was about seven feet in width and bordered by the kitchen wall.
▪ Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.
▪ The kitchen walls literally run with water at times!
▪ Flames shot up amidst coils of thick smoke that blackened our kitchen walls and ceiling.
▪ Keep a fire blanket on the kitchen wall in case of emergencies.
▪ With any luck the calendar finds a place on the kitchen wall and serves as a useful reference throughout the year.
window
▪ She glanced out of the kitchen window.
▪ At least seven shots were fired into the apartment through a kitchen window.
▪ All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender.
▪ He sat for a long time, staring up at the Klubocks' kitchen window.
▪ Cathie glanced up at the sky through the kitchen window.
▪ Nick tossed three bags of gold through the kitchen window, and the three daughters married Soon after.
▪ Beyond her kitchen window, crocuses sprouted up from the grass, bright as doubloons, orange and heliotrope.
▪ One came through the kitchen window of a nearby house while the family was eating in the dining room.
■ VERB
come
▪ Frau Trauffer and her daughters came out of the kitchen wiping their hands on their aprons.
▪ Lizzie came from the kitchen to tell her Jenny had phoned and was arriving a day earlier.
▪ What comes next, the kitchen sink?
▪ Ralph Lauren's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen, followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee.
▪ One came through the kitchen window of a nearby house while the family was eating in the dining room.
▪ Then, as if drawn by the presence of strangers, another of the household came into the kitchen.
▪ The dinner guest arrived early and came marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise of offering assistance.
enter
▪ Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen, Annie looked up.
▪ It was after ten in the morning and she had just entered the kitchen to replenish her coffee mug.
▪ Anybody entering the kitchen from the garden door would spot her immediately.
▪ Dinner doesn't bode well for the food-loving gentleman entering the kitchen without a decent set of knives.
▪ She entered the kitchen from the back gate closing the door on the small yard with a click of finality.
▪ But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers.
▪ She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga.
▪ It was as she put the last plate on the table that the door opened and Carrie Smith entered the kitchen.
go
▪ When she went back to the kitchen Penry's tray stood on the counter, the plates satisfactorily empty.
▪ But instead of going to the kitchen she came up the stairs.
▪ If you ask me, she should go back to her kitchen!
▪ Automatically she went to the kitchen.
▪ Phoebe went back to the kitchen, heated up some tinned soup and made tuna fish sandwiches.
▪ When he got home, he went to the kitchen looking for Puny and saw instead an unusual sight in his backyard.
▪ She went off into the kitchen.
▪ When jazz musicians go to a club, the first place we go is the kitchen.
lead
▪ He walked along the small passage leading to the kitchen, then padded beyond it into the scullery before pressing a light-switch.
▪ When she went through the door that led back into the kitchen, she found that Julius was still there.
▪ They counted to 100, then raced for the door that led into the kitchen.
▪ The fireplace, dating from the castle's foundation in 1625, has been converted into a hatch leading to the kitchen.
▪ In the door leading to the kitchen Pumfrey noticed a girl of ten or so.
▪ With this intention firmly planted in her mind, she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens.
▪ A door connected kitchen with bathroom, with the rear door leading from the kitchen to the carport.
leave
▪ In the evening, bone-tired, she left the kitchen and went to put a reluctant Anna to bed.
▪ I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.
▪ She left him in the kitchen examining the espresso coffee machine with wonder, while she went to Patrick's office.
▪ Then he turned and left the kitchen.
▪ He left the kitchen and picked up the hotel cashbox from his office in the foyer.
▪ Spoiled and rotting food was left in the kitchen and on tables.
▪ They left the kitchen window open for Tobermory as usual, but he did not come.
▪ And I longed to leave the kitchen now for the openness of the front compound.
open
▪ She stepped over him, going through to the kitchen and opening the booze cupboard.
▪ The kitchen door opened a crack and a servant, her head bound tightly in blue cloth, peeked into the room.
▪ Frankie stared through the banisters, willing the kitchen door to open.
▪ Then he went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and found some orange juice and a loaf of bread.
▪ The heavy ornate kitchen door swung silently open on well-oiled hinges.
▪ He darted into the kitchen and opened the door next to the stove.
▪ Piggy-wig was in the kitchen, Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge.
return
▪ Instead he suggested to Boris that he should return to the kitchen, leaving the final details to him.
▪ Then he returned to the kitchen.
▪ The two awaited her return in a kitchen redolent with the smell of home baking.
▪ He listened for a moment, then returned to the kitchen.
▪ After filling a glass with water, she returned to the kitchen and sat down and slowly sipped the water.
▪ He nodded as she returned to the kitchen.
▪ When she returned to the kitchen, Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar's eyes.
▪ Mrs Arkaday thanked him, then returned to the kitchen.
run
▪ But Tildy ran into the kitchen, and she began to cry.
▪ Then she ran water in the kitchen.
▪ I ran to and fro from the kitchen for some time with saucepans and kettles of boiling water.
▪ I run out of the kitchen.
▪ She drew a deep breath and ran into the kitchen and they turned in their chairs to look at her.
▪ When I returned, I ran into the kitchen, dashing from one set of female legs to another.
▪ The mixture should be thin enough to run through a small kitchen funnel.
sit
▪ He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw.
▪ Bleakly, he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin.
▪ Then Beatrice and Mike Tonelli and I sit at the kitchen table.
▪ Night after night they sat in the kitchen, adding frills of lace and clusters of tiny artificial pearls.
▪ Afterward I sat in the kitchen with her over a cup of coffee.
▪ When Thomas was contentedly playing with his cars, Ashley sat down at the kitchen table.
▪ Nana and I sat at her kitchen table eating Fannie Mae chocolates and playing gin rummy.
sitting
▪ They were still sitting at the kitchen table.
▪ A family are sitting around their kitchen table, having a conversation about the things in the room.
▪ So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in.
▪ It could happen right now, sitting on a white kitchen chair in a cool breeze and drinking iced tea.
▪ Last night he and I were sitting silently in the kitchen at about midnight, when Heathcliff came home.
▪ Fanshawe won, of course, and two minutes later I found myself sitting in the little kitchen with the fat madam.
▪ The children would be sitting around the kitchen table.
▪ She is sitting at the kitchen table with Fran drinking bourbon for the first time in her life.
stand
▪ She stood briefly in the kitchen, glaring at Josie.
▪ She stood him on the kitchen table, where he dripped soapy water on to the plastic tablecloth.
▪ As Emily Mahon stood in the kitchen she hoped that Nan would be warm and pleasant to her father this morning.
▪ I stood in the kitchen breathing hard, then felt my way to the ladder.
▪ Piers was standing in the small kitchen, dwarfing it with his presence.
▪ They eat standing up in the kitchen.
▪ Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen.
▪ I was standing in the kitchen, he didn't see me but I saw him.
walk
▪ Constance ran round the side of the house, and walking into the kitchen, slammed the door loudly behind her.
▪ She loved watching him walk around the kitchen in his jeans and sweatshirt.
▪ He walked into the brightly-lit kitchen, opened the fridge, took out a bottle of pure water and opened it.
▪ The way she rinsed the breakfast dishes and dried her hands and then walked out of the kitchen without looking at him.
▪ She walked into the kitchen feeling like committing murder, Roman Wyatt's murder.
▪ Karen put the magazine down and walked into the kitchen.
▪ As he was speaking, he began to walk from the kitchen into the sitting room.
▪ He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
everything but the kitchen sink
▪ Burglars broke in and took everything but the kitchen sink.
▪ When my parents come to stay with us, they bring everything but the kitchen sink!
▪ Aunt Hortense: Babsy Hepworth's bronzes, everything but the kitchen sink.
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jay's in the kitchen washing the dishes.
▪ the kitchen table