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coffee cup

noun as in mug

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Rather than salute with the coffee cup in his hand, President Obama hands the cup to an aide standing on the steps behind him.

He saluted the Marines standing guard on the tarmac with his right hand—the hand with the coffee cup in it.

This week, President Obama disembarked from Air Force One while holding his jacket in his left hand and a coffee cup in his right.

It is damn hard to transfer a coffee cup from one hand into an encumbered other hand all while walking down the stairs.

Figuring out whether to throw out your lipstick-stained coffee cup in recycling, trash, or compost can be truly maddening.

The letter was right there at hand in the drawer of the little table upon which Edna had just placed her coffee cup.

Of course, Bud told himself while the waiter refilled his coffee cup, it was none of his business what Foster had up his sleeve.

Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper.

"It is—" he paused, his face suddenly red as he looked hard into his coffee-cup.

As he spoke Silka drained the coffee-cup he had given her, and by so doing bound herself to him henceforward.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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