flask

Example Sentences

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He used to carry a tiny flask of it in his man purse to dribble onto meals at restaurants.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

A misterioso clairvoyant, Madame Web is a secondary Spider-Man character who met the web-weaver in the comics in 1980 while regally parked on a life-support system shaped like a round-bottom flask.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Since developing the all-steel vacuum flask in 1913, the Stanley company has cultivated a particularly rugged, if not decidedly masculine, image.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2024

For modern progressive Jews, the Talmudic story of the miraculous flask of oil sits more comfortably than the story of zealots exercising military strength.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2023

As he looked at the bricks, he realized that what he had thought was “pepper” when he had looked at the cells in the flask ten days ago—those specks in the cells—were really inclusion bodies.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston