How to Use thermos in a Sentence

thermos

noun
  • What comes out of the thermos is a pile of dark grey sludge.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Like half of a thermos was brandy and the rest was coffee, and that's at 4:30 in the morning.
    Eileen Reslen, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Find one near you, pack a thermos or two of hot cocoa, and wave with the crowds.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Leave your desk to make a dark roast, or take a thermos to savor in a park.
    Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • It’s not a bad idea to pack a second thermos full of soup, too.
    Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Screw on the top of the thermos, label it and place it right on the buffet table.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Put your loose-leaf tea in the basket, secure the lid, drop it in the thermos, and pour water over the top.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The bus is covered on top, but open on the sides, so pack a blanket and a thermos of cocoa.
    Melissa Walker, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Class schedule in one hand and a warm thermos of coffee in the other.
    Katelyn Chef, Teen Vogue, 10 Aug. 2018
  • So pack your blankets and a thermos of cider to sit back and enjoy the twinkling stars.
    Miriam Porter, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • The counter staff at the local Dunkin’ knew to fill her thermos with coffee and milk, no sugar.
    Alejandro Lazo, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
  • And one of the walk-up food locations is a lunch pail that’s been propped up with a giant thermos.
    Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Our hosts send us off each morning with heavy lunch sacks and thermoses full of Red Bull-strength tea.
    Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The chief, his wife and a few relatives sit in the back, drinking coffee from a thermos.
    Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Savvy shoppers in 2021 have religated the folding chair to the garage and the thermos to the cupboard.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2021
  • This Thermos stainless-steel King 16-ounce thermos mug is just the thing.
    Nicole Briese, USA TODAY, 6 July 2020
  • Make sure to bring warm clothes, a blanket or chair to sit in, and maybe even a thermos filled with tea or hot chocolate.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2016
  • This tough thermos was a champ at keeping liquid warm for hours in our tests.
    Betty Gold, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The electricity is out, so Hazel is forced to serve tea from a thermos.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Grab a tumbler of cold brew the size of your head. Sling a thermos of your best Italian brew over your shoulder.
    Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 7 June 2019
  • Bring your own thermos and cups to avoiding sharing germs, as well.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The restaurant is in the shape of a giant lunch box, including an old-school thermos.
    Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 June 2018
  • Ian Phillips, 35, trudged through the rain to the Masonic temple in Los Feliz with a thermos in hand.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Inside the tent, Horn took a thermos of hot drinking water and poured it over himself to rinse off the salt.
    Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020
  • At least three sets of mate gourds and thermoses sat untouched on the coffee table.
    Candace Rose Rardon, Longreads, 10 July 2018
  • Bundle up, turn up the holiday tunes, pack a thermos of cocoa and make a whole day of it.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In Ham, after the trespass, the group stopped in a churchyard for lunch, where more thermoses of tea emerged from backpacks.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • Other people in the group carried a thermos, too, though his wife did not.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Make any soup + pack in thermos + finish with lemon juice, olive oil, and something crispy.
    Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The coffee was issued from a battered old thermos and drunk from tin cups, the old thin-walled ones that transfer the heat to your hand.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021

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