teakettle
Example Sentences
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I went ass over teakettle, tumbling and flipping and flopping down the hill, just a ball of dust.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
Dougherty’s mother has a copper teakettle that crossed the Atlantic with Finnish ancestors, and Dougherty’s son has already called dibs on the piece.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Every four years, when the Winter Olympics come around, TV viewers stop and notice men and women in funny looking pants furiously sweeping in front of what looks like a giant teakettle sliding on ice.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022
A: The white spots are almost certainly cloudiness in a lacquer coating that the manufacturer of your teakettle applied to keep the copper shiny and bright for as long as possible.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022
He walked through the yard, slipping on a loose piece of bark, picking himself up and stomping on the treacherous thing, then sniffing the ring of ashy stones where the man’s teakettle had heated.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
