hot-water bottle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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If I was laughing inwardly at the hot-water bottle, I stop when Pebbles burns up the course.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019
As a native of Ireland, I, and all of us, were very familiar growing up with the 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
“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
There was already some hot water in the kettle, so I filled the hot-water bottle and put it under the blankets.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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