jerry

Example Sentences

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People bought five-gallon jerry cans, filled them, and bought more.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

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

"I used to sell up to five jerry cans of shea oil a week, right now I can only fill two jerry cans at most."

From BBC • May 1, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

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