Recently I've been ordering Yerba Mate tea online in 1/2 and 1-kilo bags: I've got a Japanese-style tea-strainer (rather than the traditional yerba mate bombadillo (?)/straw-thing) and a coffee mug, and drink tea on and off throughout the day. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You could use a tea-strainer to remove the bits of sage leaf. ❋ E (2009)
After I gave up on finding the part that the bandsaw flung across the room, I got a new tea-strainer spoon to dismantle. ❋ Maryrobinette (2008)
Strain milk mixture through a tea-strainer into a measuring cup, pressing the teabags with the back of a spoon. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2008)
Fill the crater of the cake with the whipped cream, easing it out gently towards the edges of the cake, and dust the top lightly with cocoa powder pushed through a tea-strainer. ❋ Niki (2005)
"So clever, the way you trapped that last one with the tea-strainer -" ❋ Rowling, J. K. (1999)
Smiley was amused by the immaculate condition of the tray cloth, by the matching china and tea-strainer, laid before them by the enormous hands of the cadet. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (1962)
He raised his Athenian eyebrows, and she realized what a mistake she had made in not bringing the lethal tea-strainer along. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Before Claire could kill her -- there wasn't any homicidal weapon in sight except a silver tea-strainer -- Mrs. Corey had pirouetted on, "Though I do think that we're much too kind to workmen and all -- the labor situation is getting to be abominable here in the West, and upon my word, to keep a maid nowadays, you have to treat her as though she were a countess." ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Jap boy to call "comrade" and she again thought about the possibilities of the tea-strainer for use in assassination. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
In one of his letters he describes himself and Bentley fishing in the pond for goldfish with "nothing but a pail and a basin and a tea-strainer, which I persuade my neighbours is the Chinese method." ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)
He still held in his hand the old tea-strainer which he had been grasping when they rescued him; he had held on to it convulsively all the time. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
Johnny saw a pail of water, dipped a tea-strainer into it, and dashed two drops in ❋ Sophie May (1869)
He was just scraping the jelly out of a tart when they disturbed him; and knowing that more slaps were in store for him if he stayed, he at once walked calmly down the ravaged table, and vanished out of the window carrying the silver tea-strainer with him to play with. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)
You would be entertained with our fishing; instead of nets, and rods and lines, and worms, we use nothing but a pail and a basin and a tea-strainer, which I persuade my neighbours is the Chinese method. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
Recently I've been ordering Yerba Mate tea online in 1/2 and 1-kilo bags: I've got a Japanese-style tea-strainer (rather than the traditional yerba mate bombadillo(? ❋ Unknown (2009)
My [ballsack] was [sore] after my girlfriend gave me a [tea strainer]. ❋ Marika349204 (2008)
