How to Use bottle in a Sentence

bottle

1 of 2 noun
  • We drank a bottle of wine.
  • Has the baby finished her bottle yet?
  • He says he's lost too many years to the bottle, and that he's giving up alcohol.
  • Her struggles with the bottle affected her entire family.
  • The cleaner bottle on the handle clicks on and off with ease.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2023
  • When ready to serve, add bottle of Champagne to the pitcher and stir.
    Katie Jacobs, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
  • Keep in Mind One charge opens around 30 bottles of wine.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Why bother to rank the taste of dozens of bottles of still water?
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • What happens to this bottle next is very much up to them.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Don’t try to give me no bottles, don’t try to offer me no shot, don’t do none of that.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The murder weapon was believed to be a glass bottle, the report said.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • The image of him drinking milk from the glass bottle remains vivid in my mind.
    Bonnie MacDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Diners can bring their own bottle of wine to Padaek for just $15.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That same year, Novak Djokovic had a bottle pop in the middle of his serve to Hubert Hurkacz.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • Keys brought two towels and a bottle of water over to where the fan was being helped.
    CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The pair smiled as David held a bottle of champagne to celebrate in his free hand.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The latest solution to this dilemma comes in the form of a ready-to-drink bottle from ALDI.
    Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Not only can this fridge hold 20 bottles but also up to 78 cans.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • It was littered with empty glass and plastic bottles, crushed beer cans and a large plank of wood.
    Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Those cases were left on the ocean floor for over a year, just long enough for a reef ecosystem to develop on the crates and bottles.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
  • However, spray bottles filled with oil are okay to use.
    Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Currently 50% off, each spray bottle in this set of three holds up to 12 ounces of liquid.
    Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This bottle will be available in select markets for an SRP of $5,000—but expect to find it in the wild for much more than that.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Each bottle also contains enough rice to feed a family of four for a week, as well as a Bible on a flash drive and a U.S. $1 bill.
    Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The wine industry has also been grappling with rising prices of the glass used to make bottles.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • When the team took breaks, McDonald would jog over to check on him, or to give him a bottle or change his diaper.
    Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • The girl reached into her backpack, pulled out a small baby-blue water bottle, and took a long sip.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Nestled in a back corner, a life-size bottle of Chance invited guests to strike a pose.
    Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The menu will also boast entrees like lasagna bolognese, sides of fresh sourdough bread and affordable bottles of wine.
    Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • So, the team worked with water treatment plants in Houston and El Paso, every week packing up (leak-proof) bottles of sewage and shipping them overnight to Baylor for testing.
    Simar Bajaj, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
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bottle

2 of 2 verb
  • Near the top of the mountain, the climbers relied on bottled oxygen to breathe.
  • The restaurant bottles its own ginger ale.
  • Maria had to use the creek near her house to wash clothes and bottle water.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The pipeline runs to a roadside tank, and the water is trucked to a bottling plant.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This whiskey is bottled at 99 proof and is just over six years old.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There are plenty of brands on the market, from boxed to bottled to canned to bagged — yes, bagged.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • The perfumes rest for up to two years before they are bottled.
    ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • The oil is sourced from its native home of Australia and bottled in the United States.
    Sherri Gordon, Verywell Health, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Among the items Jackson is choosing to bottle up is the weight of the unresolved court case.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2022
  • It is aged in large oak barrels for six years and then bottle aged for at least one year.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The final 45 against Seattle over the weekend need to be bottled.
    oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The water had been drained out with a few puddles at the base; that’s way too far away to bottle up and sell on eBay.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Please, for the love of all things good, bottle that apple sauce, chef Sean Kontos.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Zoo staff have been working around the clock to bottle feed and care for the infant gorilla.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Right now there are three that are entirely vine to bottle wines.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2022
  • Who knew the magic could be bottled outside on the grass field and sprinkled indoors on the hardwood floor?
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The rarest of all, often bottled in collectable glass, sell for hundreds of dollars apiece.
    Martha Irvine and Dar Yasin, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The nose guard and the two defensive tackles are true two-gap defenders who play along the line of scrimmage and look to bottle up the run game.
    Lance Reisland, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The Bluetoothed woman didn’t look up when I was shown in with my plastic water bottle the size of a Ping-Pong ball.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Atelier found a way to bottle those aromas and make the earthy and wonderful cologne that is Trefle Pur Pure.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • The researchers took shifts, spending 24 hours a day with the pups, initially getting up every 2 to 3 hours in the middle of the night to bottle feed them.
    Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And now a single-cask bottling of the esteemed is available to purchase from the Whisky Exchange, a rare occurrence in the world of Irish whiskey.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Its mineral waters were bottled and sold for decades starting in the 1870s.
    Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2023
  • Doubling as a lounge, the restaurant will also have hookah and bottle service at certain times.
    Taijuan Moorman, The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Will Hollywood ever bottle the magic of short-form video? ‘The Last Dance’ started a flood of sports docs.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • There’s an instinctive allure to want to bottle that magic and replicate it over and over.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Keeping your spray bottle tightly sealed and away from heat and light will preserve it for longer — that means avoid stashing it in your beach bag.
    Gabe Bergado, Allure, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Stubblefield bottled the sauce in old jam jars and Jack Daniel's bottles with the labels scraped off, corking them with a jalapeño.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Aber Falls supported the new rules that required that Welsh water be used and that the whisky be distilled, matured and bottled in Wales.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But the Warriors needed to bottle more of his energy, and more consistently to overcome a poor shooting night.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024

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