flask

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Recent Examples of flask So in 1952 a young chemist named Stanley Miller filled a flask halfway with water, topped it with methane, ammonia and hydrogen to mimic the planet’s early atmosphere and then flung a miniature lightning bolt into that fertile soup. Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2025 The Steinbeck plaque was face up in a metal contraption called a casting flask. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 This 18-ounce hydration flask, on the other hand, is perfect for travel. Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2025 Others took the opportunity to post Musk’s legendarily inept Elden Ring build, which boasted no less than two shields, but no healing flask (somehow, his character had managed to reach level 111). Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flask
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Noun
  • Punch a few small holes in the caps of plastic milk jugs or large soda bottles and fill the bottles with water.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
  • The painting includes portraits of two children, one with wide-open, frightened eyes and the other with eyes closed, somberly sipping on a bottle of Coca-Cola.
    Hung Duong, Artforum, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Bikes The bikes took over the city streets during COVID, When New Yorkers discovered that everything could be delivered, Including a cup of coffee from Starbucks, for some reason.
    Jenny Allen, New Yorker, 19 June 2025
  • Tasting begins at 11 a.m., with $2 sample cups or a $25 Master Ticket for sampling all the chili and voting.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • Old New York money probably chased a tankard from around 1710 that belonged to Henry Beekman, whose grandson, Robert Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Listen to this article As is the tradition in Vista during Memorial Day weekend, thousands of folks will take part in festivities at a street fair centered around strawberries, from pie eating to ice cream sundae contests and beer stein holding competitions.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Expect pictures from various party headquarters, with everyone huddled around lead candidates — champagne flutes or beer steins in hand, depending on the party — waiting for those first results.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, our workers have swept the streets and then put the refuse in bags next to the garbage pails on street corners.
    Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
  • Trump set the house on fire and then fetched a single pail of water.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Clean the pool daily: Use a small bucket or container full of fresh water as a foot-rinse station.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
  • The 50-count miniature doughnut container serves as a reusable beach bucket.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • It is then topped with grated parmesan that melts on contact to create a sweet, salty, ultra-decadent pot of the Italian rice that tastes even better when reheated the next day.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
  • More than eight years after the state moved to allow adults to use marijuana recreationally, rules for how Amsterdam-style pot cafes will operate in the Bay State are finally coming into focus and could be in place by Halloween.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • At his new prison, inmates can buy their own razors and nail clippers from the canteen.
    Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • One of the cooks from the canteen where my mum had worked came by.
    Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Flask.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flask. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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