How do you use the word "coke" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "coke" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "coke": Can I have two hamburgers and a coke, please? Coke has always been the top dog when it comes to soft drinks.

Coke Meaning

/kəʊk/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounSolid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

verbTo produce coke from coal.

Sentence Examples

Can I have two hamburgers and a coke, please?

Coke has always been the top dog when it comes to soft drinks.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

snow blow

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He ordered a ____ with his burger at the diner.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

To make steel, coal is heated at high temperatures to produce ____.

Word Origin & History

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid." — 1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102:

"At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making." — 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:

"The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too." — 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:

"'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'" — 1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:

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