thermos
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In the 1960s and 1970s, he would be up before the sun to pack a thermos of coffee and a camp lunch in one saddle bag and an acrid, tar-like screwworm killer in the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
You could drop off breakfast in the form of convenience-store pastries and a thermos of hot coffee to share.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026
At regular intervals, he poured himself a cup of steaming hot chai from his thermos.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
The thermos still sells on the Stanley website for $36.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
He pulled a thermos from the bag, then poured cider into two paper cups.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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If we’re dealing in clichés, these thermoses belong in the lunchbox of a guy taking a break from the assembly line or in the hands of a construction worker.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2024
They collected blaze-yellow protective gear from lockers in the back, donned hard hats and tugged at thermoses of coffee and cans of Rockstar — readying for another long and grueling day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
It was a cool fall morning and families sat on blankets or newspapers in the grass, passing around thermoses of tea.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2022
Above her desk, cluttered with coffee thermoses and file folders, she has taped a reminder.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple