jug
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Put tea bags in a jug of cool water and refrigerate overnight.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
By having a communal jug, the lawsuit alleged, the staff at Los Padrinos “permitted a juvenile to control the water supply and thereby determine other students’ access to water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Warren Hood, who has been equally at home with symphonic music and in jug bands, provides an often central and dominant fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Momma passes me the water jug because she can tell my face is getting all steamed up from the heat of the chili.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
Last week Himmler was said to have jugged or sent to the rear one field marshal, six generals and 240 other officers accused of dickering with the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
By "any person" Kelley specifically meant Martin Luther King, who had been jugged only a week earlier for the third time in eight months.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to taste all the food: the pigeon pies, the honey tarts, that suckling pig with the apple in its mouth, and the jugged hare.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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
According to the FBI, jugging has surged during the pandemic.
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
Well, after "jugging" Stoneman, we go back to Atlanta and occupy our same old place near the concrete house.
From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins
Ground game at that, for Coracle is in the act of "jugging" a hare.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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