jug
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Within the exhibition halls, a bedroom, living room and kitchen -- complete with a glass jug, coffee pot, and spice containers -- recreate details of daily life in the homes of southern Lebanese residents.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Look, for instance, for a conductor with a clock as a face, dancing luggage and a cicada jug band, among a host of other oddities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Each time a downpour begins, Scott strips down to the waist, grabs a large glass jug, and runs out to one of three drainpipes to collect enough water to last the week.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
At age 16, he met Garcia, 21, in Palo Alto, Calif., and they formed a jug band, shifting to electric instruments following the rapid popularity of the Beatles in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
At two o'clock sharp the class assembled, including Miss Honey who noted that the jug of water and the glass were in the proper place.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
Others include jugged hare and flummery - an oat-based fermented jelly, associated with farmhouse production and poverty.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Without tannins, cider can taste flabby, one-dimensional, limp—and in need of flavorings to mask the fact that it tastes like, well, jugged juice.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2016
In Casper, Wyo., L. D. Mudge bravely entered a police station to bail out a pal, got jugged as an escaped prisoner when a cop saw through his set of false whiskers.
From Time Magazine Archive
So well did he succeed in annoying two prominent New Yorkers, Jay Gould and Jim Fiske, that a crooked Tammany judge jugged him.
From Time Magazine Archive
“For the last time for eight months we really had as much as we could eat. Anchovies in oil, baked beans, and jugged hare made a glorious mixture.”
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
According to the FBI, jugging has surged during the pandemic.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
According to a recent report from ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the city of Austin has had 84 jugging cases this year.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
When the Marathon was three-fourths finished, he was just an obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You don’t want that brass falling out, and them tracing you down here and jugging you–you fool,” she panted as she climbed to the ground.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
Ground game at that, for Coracle is in the act of "jugging" a hare.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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