tub
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Will £12 for a tub eventually start to put people off though?
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“A walk to the Grove, a movie over a shared tub of popcorn, and a stop at the Kibitz Room on the way home.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Alan Dorfman held an Etch A Sketch over a laundry tub, picked up a hacksaw and sawed the device in half, spilling silver powder everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The primary bathroom boasts a marble soaking tub, following the home’s elegant aesthetic.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
When I finally got out of the tub for good, it was black.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos waded through murky, knee-deep water in the Thai capital, some venturing into a supermarket while others floated their belongings in plastic tubs.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The Delafield Hotel is a charming boutique property with massive rooms, comfortable beds and bathrooms outfitted with Kohler rain showers and soaking hydrotherapy tubs.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The bathrooms boast large soaking tubs and chic vanities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Even yogurt containers and margarine tubs — made of ubiquitous polypropylene, or #5 plastic — are being recycled at a rate of only 2% in the state, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He made me drag the zinc tubs full of watered-down rose blankets into the shed room by the back porch.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Then I turned the corner: Freezers lined with beautiful tubbed sauces and pastas.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Goaded by time bulletins shouted through the closed door, Fanny found herself tubbed, clothed, and ready for breakfast by eight-ten.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
But no: he stood before his dressing-table, tubbed, shaven, half-clothed, and looking as fresh as paint.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So he wandered up-stairs into Mortimer's apartments, where he tubbed and dressed, and finally descended, to find Agatha Caithness alone in the library, spinning a roulette wheel and whistling an air from "La Bacchante."
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He then takes her to a winter wonderland for some light luging and hot tubbing.
From Time ● Jan. 14, 2014
The lieutenant was in his bedroom, which opened to the left out of the sitting-room where I sat, and Dennis was tubbing in another room similarly placed on the right.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
And then, in strong contrast, are those who train enough in all conscience with 'gloves,' single-stick, sculls, and all suchlike appliances, and whose works take the form of tubbing, volunteering, and a general jovial philanthropy.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
Thus, more and more Ruth turned to the mongrel dog who bore the name of Rollo unflinchingly—the dog that adored her openly, shamelessly, who now without a whimper took his diurnal tubbing.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
No bath, of course, but up here you get used to tubbing in your basin, and—and little things like that.
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus