flask

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Recent Examples of flask About an hour into the film, fans catch a glimpse of the background on Happy’s phone (which doubles as a flask). Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 July 2025 Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025 Happy is miserable, drunk, broke, and working at the local Stop and Shop, where his daily grind is only broken up by taking nips from increasingly insane flasks (a cucumber, a TV remote, and many more). Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 July 2025 Maybe the alcohol began with little flasks in her bag. Constance Debré, Harpers Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flask
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flask
Noun
  • Someone occasionally passed out and had to be carried to his room; others drank on the patio where there was camaraderie but no close friendships because their primary interactions were with their bottles.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Add these ingredients into a spray bottle to spray on the tile.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And the person who poured the beverage is revealed to be someone disguised in a giant Dunkin’ cup.
    Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That’ll be a lot for chiliheads to sample, but a portion of the proceeds from each tasting kit purchased ($15 for eight sample cups) always supports a local cause.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mockrin references the tankard by painting the Sabine women in a color palette mimicking marble statuary or ivory carvings.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • According to the Harry Potter website, the beverage could be served warm and foaming in tankards or cold in bottles and tasted like a less-sweet butterscotch.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Humans can enter a stein-holding contest, while canines can compete in a pup cup-holding challenge.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The popular beer-stein holding contests — with divisions for both men and women — will be back, and there’ll also be a contest to see who wears the best dirndl and lederhosen.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But families attend this event mainly for the festive atmosphere, so don’t go expecting to fill up your Halloween pail.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rice and liquid sanitizer were stored in the same five-gallon bucket.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Inmates slept one to a cell and urinated in buckets.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After marveling at the park’s mud pots and hot springs, visitors to nearby Drakesbad Guest Ranch can be the direct beneficiaries of that volcanic activity as well, with therapeutic soaks in Drake’s Bath available seasonally, plus massages offered by reservation.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Prevent damage to nonstick finishes by using paper towels as a protective layer between pots and pans.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the back of a buzzy canteen, there are a pair of meeting spaces, whose names revolve with the latest academy players to have started a Premier League game for Newcastle.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bring your fastest tubes and maybe some cocoa in a canteen, too.
    Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Flask.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flask. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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