hot-water bottle
Example Sentences
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Pebbles has a vet physio and, when I meet her, she is lying down on a hot-water bottle receiving a massage.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019
As a native of Ireland, I, and all of us, were very familiar growing up with the hot-water bottle.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2018
A hot-water bottle applied to my capsaicin patch inflicted the perceptual equivalent of a third-degree burn, after which a cooling pack placed on the same spot brought tear-inducing relief.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
“It was so cold that Peter put a hot-water bottle on his belly and another one on his back, and my mother wore her fur coat.”
From Architectural Digest • Aug. 4, 2015
More cold compresses were delivered, and a hot-water bottle, and a headache lozenge.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
