thermos
Example Sentences
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You could drop off breakfast in the form of convenience-store pastries and a thermos of hot coffee to share.
From Salon
Barbara Powers packed her husband a bag with thermoses of coffee and soup, six sandwiches, pickles, and cookies.
From Literature
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Instead of using plastic water bottles, I use reusable thermoses or, if I did use a plastic water bottle, I can reuse it.
From Los Angeles Times
“I like to carry a small thermos with hot tea,” he said.
From Seattle Times
Then, according to the Smithsonian, in 1904, “‘thermos’ vacuum bottles began keeping workers' drinks hot or cold until the noon whistle blew” and that same decade they began designing lunchboxes, too.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.