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Recent Examples of flaskThis stunning stainless-steel flask keeps cocktails, whiskey, or wine perfectly chilled on the trail or by the fire.—Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025 And in case of emergencies, a good ol' fashioned flask will more than do the trick.—Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2025 For example, when researchers put volcanic sand into a flask and pumped it down to Martian atmospheric pressures, swirling the sand in the flask created a glow that could be seen in the dark, says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025 Pictures showed golden jewelry found at the site, as well as a glass flask, a glass jar and other intact items after they were collected.—CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flask
It’s understood that there’s nothing more difficult than being a successful editor, therapist, or author, even with a stash of pill bottles in a wicker basket beside an opulent floral arrangement.
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Libby Gelman-Waxner,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
At the core of Porta is a temperature control system designed to adapt to the specific wine bottle housed inside.
Guardiola used a four-man ‘non-press’, where City’s forwards formed a line and waited for their opponents to find a pass, knowing that Arsenal’s centre-backs — and cup goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga — had a comparatively limited passing range.
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Sam Lee,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Hundreds of thousands of loyalty program members are using their personal cups to earn double stars on their orders.
When that got a laugh, Gorsuch went on a brief tour of the drinking habits of the Founding Fathers:
John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day.
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Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
12 Mar. 2026
John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider for breakfast.