FLASK in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for FLASK, such as:

1. I want to drink a flask of wine.
2. He took out a metal flask from a canvas bag.
3. Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand.
4. A vacuum flask keeps cool drinks cool and hot drinks hot.
5. On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLASK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flask
 n.  a small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass
Classic Sentence:
1  Then she placed beside him a loaf, and some meat, and a flask of wine, of such a kind, that however much he took of them, they would never grow less.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE RAVEN
2  This and some dried fruits and a flask of Monte Pulciano, was the bill of fare.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
3  One of them lifted the plank, took out a flask of wine, drank some, and then passed it to his companion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
4  Near the pan he also placed a pretty little basket of Villetri grapes and a flask of Orvieto.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.
5  The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  Good cheer had opened his heart, for he left me a nook of pasty and a flask of wine, instead of my former fare.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
8  Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
9  A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real doppelkummel.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
10  He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
11  On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
12  When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a sort of tea-caddy in the other.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
13  Simon rode on, however, apparently well pleased, occasionally pulling away at a flask of spirit, which he kept in his pocket.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Example Sentence:
1  He took out a metal flask from a canvas bag.
2  A vacuum flask keeps cool drinks cool and hot drinks hot.
3  I want to drink a flask of wine.