hot-water bottle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Pebbles has a vet physio and, when I meet her, she is lying down on a hot-water bottle receiving a massage.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019
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
“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
Sarah put him on the couch with a hot-water bottle, where he took two aspirins and fell asleep.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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