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 -
Two just make the 90- minute round trip to get it – while the others pull out jerky and thermoses of coffee.
— Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023 -
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 -
Plastic trays were stacked with bowls and silverware from their homes, and there were large thermoses for tea.
— Yaqoob Akbary Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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