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Recent Examples of flaskTake a flask of herbal tea back to your room, curl up with a hot water bottle, and download the SkyView app to embark on your own private celestial safari every evening.—Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024 Elemental mercury, considered pure at 99.99 percent, is sold in a standard flask of seventy-six pounds for around $2,500, despite a worldwide stock of about 600,000 tons.—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 Picture a flask of vodka passed across a corpse, a pool of blood lit up by neon signs, an illicit kiss soundtracked by screams.—Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024 The 16-year-old who attacked Elbit Systems used two thermos flasks packed with explosives in an attack on the Israeli defense company and was charged alongside a 23-year-old accomplice, according to Bloomberg.—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for flask
Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
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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.
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.
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Christopher F. Schuetze,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
The ceremonial keg tapping takes place Friday evening, and the weekend lineup includes a German chocolate cake baking contest, a stein hoisting contest, and a chicken dance competition (costumes and creativity encouraged).
In the clip, the newly platinum blonde actress held a shopping bag in one hand and a bright red pail in the other, walking down a beachy path.
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Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
The buckets are used as a replacement for the standard cardboard Happy Meal box and can double as a candy pail to use for trick-or-treating on Halloween.
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Endia Fontanez,
The Arizona Republic,
2 Oct. 2024
Once the donuts are long gone, reuse the bucket as an Easter centerpiece or during your annual egg hunts.
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Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
Nets two-way guard Tyson Etienne scored his first career buckets early in the fourth quarter and fellow two-way Tosan Evbuomwan played for the first time in over a month.
Over the last few years, work has been done to improve the environment at the training ground where, as well as investing heavily to upgrade the pitches, alterations have been made to the canteen, gym and dressing room so that players can enjoy spending time together.
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Paul Taylor,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
Drinking from a canteen is best left to back country adventures where resources are scarce, for the rest of us the Vinglacé line-up is a welcome solution for wine lovers and really anyone who cares about beverage purity.
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