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

One way to identify a virus is to make it grow inside living cells in a flask of water.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston