hot-water bottle
Example Sentences
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If I was laughing inwardly at the hot-water bottle, I stop when Pebbles burns up the course.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019
Not just any hot-water bottle will do, though.
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
Tarasenkov slid a hot-water bottle into the bed, but it had no effect: he was shivering.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
