hot-water bottle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Each time, I tell them the same thing: Get a hot-water bottle.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2018
By the time the hot-water bottle was placed on it, about an hour in, I was surely at an 8.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
When I get home, Mum makes me tea and gives me a hot-water bottle.
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2017
“It was so cold that Peter put a hot-water bottle on his belly and another one on his back, and my mother wore her fur coat.”
From Architectural Digest • Aug. 4, 2015
More cold compresses were delivered, and a hot-water bottle, and a headache lozenge.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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