(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) :-D "Apparently there were 11-12 year olds still being held in the kettle when they finally let Kathy (15) out.
(3) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(4) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.
(5) The water aerosol inhalation therapy was prescribed for respiratory tract infection and carried out at home using either an electric kettle or a saucepan.
(6) And that’s just how Theresa May likes it | Martin Kettle Read more Russia was the guarantor of a 2013 deal under which Syria would remove all chemical weapons.
(7) Dismore questioned the tactic of containing schoolchildren within a "kettle", an area enclosed by police, and said Stephenson should resist using language that could inflame unrest.
(8) I have to be careful handling things like boiling kettles."
(9) The Met denied it had intended to kettle protesters, despite evidence of metal barriers and rows of officers waiting along Whitehall.
(10) "Today's nationalist focus is all about defending the sense – and to some extent the reality – that Scotland is the last bastion of the 1945 welfare state nation," my colleague Martin Kettle says in the Guardian today.
(11) 7.56pm: This just in from Matthew Taylor: Matthew Taylor Photograph: Guardian Apparently, students in Whitehall told they could be kettled until midnight.
(12) The poll was taken up in the Guardian by Martin Kettle on Thursday.
(13) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
(14) 3.36pm: Tom Chambers has sent this photo, taken by Simon Richardson, of the police van that was stranded in the middle of the kettle of protesters in central London.
(15) They have not increased our security at home – rather the opposite – and they have caused destabilisation and devastation abroad.” The problem with Labour’s manifesto isn’t the ideas, it’s the credibility | Martin Kettle Read more The former cabinet minister Peter Hain, who served in the Foreign Office with Cook, said he backed the foreign policy rethink in the draft manifesto, especially policies on arms sales.
(16) The simultaneous sound of kettles boiling and computers booting herald the start of the day.
(17) She never fills the kettle with any more than she needs, long ago turned down the washing machine cycle from 60C to 30C, and the whole family have switched from baths to showers, so using less water.
(18) Speaking at New Scotland Yard today, where protesters were expected to attempt to "kettle" police later, he said the inquiry could take months to complete.
(19) The Delabole windfarm marked its 25th anniversary in December, having produced enough power to boil 3.4bn kettles since the blades began spinning.
(20) On a wooden table, a metal kettle stood surrounded by rags and pamphlets.
Teapot
Definition:
(n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, Dimon publicly dismissed the concerns about the trading activities, calling them a "complete tempest in a teapot".
(2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
(3) Bob Jones, PCC for the West Midlands, told the Guardian: "I feel such equipment would be as much use as a chocolate teapot.
(4) Dimon, president and chief operating officer of JP Morgan, had initially dismissed talks of the "London whale" and mounting losses at the bank as a tempest in a teapot.
(5) Smaller readings were also found in other items of Pine Bar crockery, after the radioactive teapot was put in the dishwasher.
(6) Ongoing tempest For all his smooth talking, it is likely that the most memorable line to emerge from the career of JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon will be his crack about a "tempest in a teapot".
(7) The Lib Dems have pledged to scrap planned cuts , but their chances of gaining influence look as sturdy as a chocolate teapot.
(8) Even in the Teapot Dome scandal that shook Warren Harding’s administration in the early 1920s, and in the Watergate affair half a century later, it was not alleged that the president himself tried to intimidate an investigator.
(9) Her familiar query – “Who are you wearing?” – would quickly give way to such snarky commentary as her assessment of Adele’s Grammy outfit: the singer looked like she was sitting on a teapot.
(10) Five of the six largest forces in England and Wales said they were against deploying water cannon on their streets, with one police chief dismissing them as being "as much use as a chocolate teapot" for quelling disorder.
(11) The latest settlement relating to mortgage-backed securities follows a fine of more than $900m from a number of authorities over last year's London Whale trading incident, which Dimon had originally attempted to brush aside as "tempest in a teapot".
(12) Degree of difficulty (grades 1-4) with specific tasks (getting on and off a toilet, pouring from a teapot into a cup, turning taps on and off, carrying a saucepan of standard weight, and putting on shoes) and time taken to perform them.
(13) Mascall said subsequent tests on the teapot revealed massive contamination.
(14) And they all chose the symbol of a teapot to decorate the pot.
(15) And then I made that stupid comment about a tempest in a teapot."
(16) The Weather Service Nuclear Support Office has analyzed the meteorological and radiological data collected for the following atmospheric nuclear tests: TRINITY; EASY of the Tumbler-Snapper series; ANNIE, NANCY, BADGER, SIMON, and HARRY of the Upshot-Knothole series; BEE and ZUCCHINI of the Teapot series; BOLTZMANN and SMOKY of the Plumbbob series; and SMALL BOY of the Dominic II series.
(17) Lugovoi had put the polonium in a teapot, the inquiry heard.
(18) General election: Len McCluskey wins Unite leadership election - politics live Read more 5 The Fixed-term Parliaments Act turned out to be in the chocolate teapot category of uselessness All those assumptions about how it would prevent a prime minister calling an early election turned out to be unfounded when, after a low-key, 90-minute debate, the Commons passed a motion to override it by 522 votes to 13 because Labour MPs felt it was impossible for them to say no to dissolving parliament.
(19) Some had had their disability recognised before the study and already had aids, representing half of those with difficulty getting on and off the toilet but 24% for putting on shoes and 13% for pouring from a teapot and turning on a tap.
(20) Other gifts included a "Big Ben teapot [and] teabag rest", costing £30.25 on 10 February 2005 and a cookie and muffin basket costing £103.