jerry

Example Sentences

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Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

As she filled up plastic jerry cans with water from a standpipe in the street, the 39-year-old admitted she was struggling to provide the food and water her young children needed.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024

A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

The Hauts-de-France region also announced it was banning the sale of petrol and diesel in jerry cans and other portable containers, expanding the area from the initial announcement in the Pas-de-Calais department.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2022

Mortars lay in the sand, rice spilling out of them; jerry cans leaked water, and fires were left unattended under cooking huts.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah