colander
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Gerry Gani, from Kelshall, initially brought a colander to watch the rare solar event, but managed to find safety glasses before the eclipse began.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Alternatives to the sought-after glasses include a colander or home-made pinhole viewer.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The holes in the colander project an indirect image of the Sun on a surface, such as a wall or the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His mother was in the kitchen poking out the clogged holes of a colander with a hairpin, and biting her lower lip with concentration.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
People across Kent, Surrey and Sussex brought out solar glasses, improvised pinhole cameras and kitchen colanders to watch the celestial event.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
It’s an invitation to all of us: To put on our colanders, take up our kitchen implements and give ourselves over to make-believe.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Aside from looking pretty, the pan has a built-in spoon and spatula rest and has a modular design that lets you nest steamer baskets and colanders.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2021
War-ruined bathhouses are dotted around Aleppo’s Old City, their distinctive domes, punched like colanders with round apertures of colored glass, lying smashed, or looking down on rooms filled with rubble and garbage.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2019
Sometimes I felt like my brain was one of those colanders our housekeeper, Mrs. Ellsworth, used to drain pasta, full of little holes that let all sorts of important things escape without my permission.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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