How to Use flask in a Sentence

flask

noun
  • This isn’t the first time Rih has worn a flask to an event.
    Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Store in a carafe, bottle or flask in the fridge for at least a few weeks.
    Zak Stambor, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The search for the perfect flask is something of an art form.
    Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Cao raised a flask of yeast cells, into which the DNA would go.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
  • At first, the piece looks boxy enough to resemble a flask, not a face.
    Vogue, 29 Mar. 2019
  • This fetching flask would please any whiskey drinker with a sense of style.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2022
  • An egghead asked his father how much a five-liter flask holds.
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 25 May 2017
  • And in case of emergencies, a good ol' fashioned flask will more than do the trick.
    Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2024
  • Maybe that last one means just keeping a flask of whiskey in one’s desk as opposed to a fifth?
    Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
  • There are front pockets that fit bottles and flasks up to 22 oz.
    Amanda Loudin, NBC News, 31 July 2019
  • And Lorde isn’t the first singer to sneak a flask into the ceremony.
    Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • And in case of emergencies, a good old fashioned flask will more than do the trick.
    Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In the meantime, send tips, comments, and Joan Crawford’s flask to rebecca_keegan@condenast.com.
    Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Coates gave him the flask as a keepsake: On the last exam, of the 600 students, Ahmed had gotten the very top score.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • A few of them drank too much, tipping from pocket flasks throughout the day.
    Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Here’s how the process works: The milk is transferred into glass flasks and pooled with milk from other donors.
    Meredith Newman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • What about you? Table reached into his vest and pulled out his flask.
    Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
  • The flask for the water is like a silvered vessel with an opening for your hand.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The officer found a silver flask in the man’s back pocket.
    cleveland.com, 8 July 2019
  • This pack is designed to stay close to your body with little to no bounce, and the flask can be pulled out with one hand while on the move.
    Maggie Slepian, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
  • My husband looked amazing and made me a flask of old fashioned.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The water is stored in flasks that form a liquid library of decades of ocean water.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2019
  • Sip vodka from a flask throughout the workday: No there, there.
    Keysha Whitaker, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Santo points to several clear lab flasks the size of about a half-gallon of milk.
    Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Lizzo joked that the adorable bag could, in fact, fit a lot: tampons, a flask of tequila and condoms.
    Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2019
  • An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Offering up a drink to toast to Elliot, Lila and Diego both take a swig from the same flask, but Lila spits hers out.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Duck in for a Diet Coke, and walk out with a cowhide flask, pickled quail eggs, and beaver-faced fuzzy slippers.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • The Zephyr nails the essentials, with two flask holsters in front and a streamlined pocket in back.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 19 May 2020
  • The youngest fighters laid out a mat and brought out a flask of camel milk for the general and another older man known as the security chief, who wore a turban and sunglasses to hide a missing eye.
    Clarissa Ward, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024

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