snug
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They will be kept "snug and warm" in the site's aviaries over the winter months when the attraction is closed, with Jimmy likening his role to the "ultimate hotel service for birds".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A Hypershell spokesman said that a snug, proper fit and a lower level of assistance can help on unstable terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
I stood as far back as I could in the snug compartment and grimaced my way through it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
They’re red, shabby, and the fit is a little snug.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
We take a seat in one of the basement snugs of the Mayfair space.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2014
I look into the snugs where the women drink and in all the men’s lavatories.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Yet beside thee he snugs on the settle As thou seamest thy broidery,—that rhymester!
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
She don't know me, though she lays her head on my arm and snugs up to me awful neat.
From Ethelyn's Mistake by Holmes, Mary Jane
Certainly, there’s more data on snugger suits, tighter-fitting caps and more aerodynamic goggles.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Double-masking, or using a mask fitter or brace over a mask, can often provide a snugger seal, she said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
With this stowed in the fridge, there is no meal you cannot make snugger at the drop of a dime.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2022
I fastened the Goggles back onto my skull, adjusting for a snugger fit.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020
It seems snugger somehow, as if we were closer together than we ever were before.
From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan
It ought to be collapsing, wrecked by the move to the tablets, which fit existing magazine page sizes for the snuggest transition.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2012
This is surely the snuggest and most congenial of the top film festivals; so if some of Portman's acclaim rubs off on Venice, that's fine.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2010
It is three-dimensional, its lands are in rapid motion, and its snuggest harbors are more dangerous than the earth's most hostile coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’d wear my snuggest jeans and lay on some extra bracelets and sometimes bring one of the Gore sisters along to boost my visibility in the stands.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The snuggest house in town burned, an' you thrown out of a home!
From An Amateur Fireman by Otis, James
Yes, Washington’s people had almost all snugged up to thriving Seattle or Bellingham, and yes, our population had shrunk for 10 years running.
From Slate ● May 28, 2022
I snugged the blankets under his chin, clicked on the night light? and pulled the door softly closed.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2018
He screwed the cap back and snugged the sack under the seat.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2018
I was sleeping on the rooftops, snugged tightly into my secret place where three roofs met.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
That had been remedied by snugging up a few bolts, according to Wilson.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2017
Minutes later, it was snugging a Port Orchard Marina float.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2014
Taking care to avoid spooking the financial markets, Volcker conjured a warm-sounding euphemism for the Fed's action, which he described as "snugging."
From Time Magazine Archive
I started the stitch three times and then pushed the needle through the hide and slowly pulled, snugging up the beads almost like Sela had.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Meantime Bill Brudenell deliberately completed the work of superintending the "snugging" of the canoes for the night.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
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