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Definition of bottle
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bottle
verb
, ˈbät-liŋ \
Definition of bottle (Entry 2 of 2)
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Other Words from bottle
Noun
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noun
Verb
, ˈbät-lər \
noun
Synonyms & Antonyms for bottle
Synonyms: Noun
alcohol, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, booze, drink, firewater, grog, hooch [slang], inebriant, intoxicant, John Barleycorn, juice [slang], liquor, lush [slang], moonshine, potable, rum, sauce [slang], spirits, stimulant, strong drink, tipple
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of bottle in a Sentence
Noun
We drank a bottle of wine. He says he's lost too many years to the bottle, and that he's giving up alcohol. Her struggles with the bottle affected her entire family. Has the baby finished her bottle yet? raised on a bottle instead of breast milkVerb
The restaurant bottles its own ginger ale. Near the top of the mountain, the climbers relied on bottled oxygen to breathe.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
While patrolling the goal line as a side judge in a game last year, Glenn Fucik was the target of a flying bourbon bottle hurled his way from the student section. — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, "Behind the Scenes as SEC Refs Get a Unique Primer at Georgia Camp," 22 Aug. 2019 The distillery chose 50 organizations in Ohio to receive a bottle. — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, "Special Buffalo Trace bourbon earmarked for 19 NE Ohio charities," 22 Aug. 2019 She was found in possession of phentermine in a prescription bottle that did not belong to her, police reported. — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, "Police: 2 Friendswood men suspected in vehicle burglaries," 21 Aug. 2019 Tannat is a better bet if wine is your jam, especially unconventional bottles from Georgia (the Republic of) and Greece. — New York Times, "A Sailing Lesson on the Hudson, Followed by Nature, History and Good Eats in Inwood," 21 Aug. 2019 Give them this adorable pet-makeover set, which comes in a shampoo-bottle-shaped package with seven special surprises, including a tiny pet covered in fuzz. — Joni Sweet, USA TODAY, "Awesome kids’ birthday gifts you can get delivered next day — for free," 21 Aug. 2019 Early Tuesday morning, Fiji bottles were gone from the Skyline News and Gifts in Terminal 1. — Melia Russell, SFChronicle.com, "SFO’s plastic water bottle ban draws mixed reactions on first day," 20 Aug. 2019 An Orlando man whose SUV was filled with empty beer bottles has been charged with DUI manslaughter 1½ years after a Lake County crash that led to the death of a Groveland man, records show. — Jerry Fallstrom, orlandosentinel.com, "Orlando man charged with DUI manslaughter in 2018 Lake County crash," 20 Aug. 2019 There will still be some plastic bottles at San Francisco International. — CBS News, "San Francisco International Airport rolls out ban on plastic water bottles," 20 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Blue Spring Water began bottling in June 2017 and relied at first on word of mouth and the reputation of the spring. — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, "Blue Spring Living Water is making a splash in Alabama," 11 Aug. 2019 Another Kentucky law bottled up in federal court would mostly ban abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected. — Washington Post, "Appeals court panel hears high-stakes Kentucky abortion case," 9 Aug. 2019 Malfy Gin is a brand of gin bottled in Italy, distilled by Torino Distillati, and distributed by Biggar & Leith. — John Kell, Fortune, "Gin Sales Are Booming and It Could Be Thanks to the Growing Plant Craze," 22 June 2019 The woman’s 3-month-old twins were in the back seat of the vehicle, and a search by police uncovered two prescription Methadone bottles with urine inside them, as well as a baby bottle with urine inside it. — Washington Post, "Southern Maryland crime report," 7 Aug. 2019 Berryman struggles communicating, the result of decades bottling his feelings inside. — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, "Hundreds of men say they were sexually abused during their time in the Boy Scouts. Now they want justice.," 4 Aug. 2019 Hatidze, who never married and has no children, ekes out a living for herself and her mother by keeping bees and gathering and bottling their honey. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "“Honeyland,” Reviewed: A Gripping, Frustrating Documentary About a Beekeeper’s Fragile Isolation," 1 Aug. 2019 There’s an outside chance this beer could emerge because the label approved was for a keg, and filling a handful of kegs for an experiment like this would make much more sense than the labor-intensive step of bottling it. — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, "Goose Island's 2019 Bourbon County beer lineup emerging — or is it? Some labels are probably fakes.," 11 June 2019 Before the temporary provision was signed into law as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, interest expenses were not deducted until the bourbon was bottled and sold, which could be anywhere from two to over 20 years after aging. — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, "Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul team up on a bill to help bourbon producers," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bottle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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