bottle

Example Sentences

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A member of the public was killed after handling the delivery device, a discarded perfume bottle, triggering the largest Western expulsion in decades of Russian diplomats alleged to be spies.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The video also shows a passenger in the blue BMW throwing a water bottle out the window in the direction of the cyclists.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

“The bottle is either half empty or half full. Here, there is nothing full. There are a lot of empty things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

A message in a bottle dropped from a boat off Canada has been found washed up in the north-east of Scotland.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

She offered a bottle of wine, stoppered with a screwed-up rag.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell