teakettle
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I went ass over teakettle, tumbling and flipping and flopping down the hill, just a ball of dust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Dougherty’s mother has a copper teakettle that crossed the Atlantic with Finnish ancestors, and Dougherty’s son has already called dibs on the piece.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Every four years, when the Winter Olympics come around, TV viewers stop and notice men and women in funny looking pants furiously sweeping in front of what looks like a giant teakettle sliding on ice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Music to get into character When I settled into my dressing room, three of the things I made sure to immediately do was get a Bluetooth speaker, a teakettle and incense and candles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
For herself and for Father, she made tea, using water from a copper teakettle that she must have already boiled and set at the edge of the stove to keep hot.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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Andersen goes on, rather self-indulgently, to name-check every cultural totem from Aeron chairs and Alessi teakettles to “Mad Men,” and somewhat underplays the political significance of his own findings.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
But this coating is not appropriate for teakettles or pots that are used for cooking, because the lacquer does not stand up to hot water.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
The young Swiss curators Niels Olsen and Fredi Fischli invited 60 artists and architects to interpret street signs, chairs, teakettles and architecture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2018
Celebrated architect who created whimsical postmodern structures and later designed products for people with disabilities and household goods such as whistling Alessi teakettles and stainless steel colanders.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2015
The room felt like a museum of random ordinary objects; the walls held glass cases boasting keys, pendulums, coins, oven mitts, ropes, even teakettles, and more.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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