jerry
Example Sentences
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People bought five-gallon jerry cans, filled them, and bought more.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
As she filled up plastic jerry cans with water from a standpipe in the street, the 39-year-old admitted she was struggling to provide the food and water her young children needed.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024
A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
Hundreds of gallons of water in ten gallon plastic jerry jugs.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
