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tub

[tuhb] / tʌb /


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It has an infrared sauna and a huge hot tub that can fit up to like 20 people.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

ALTER: Everyone should have a stall shower, separate from the tub.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The decayed plant turns black and is caught in a sieve, allowing the seeds to fall to the bottom of the catching tub.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

I bought a tub of amatriciana, flecked with visible hunks of guanciale and red pepper flakes, and a box of rigatoni.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

I don’t want to mention Naomi and the cool tub, so instead I open the bag of books and rifle through them.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

It has tubs of brown butter, frozen flat or portioned into little pucks, ready to make a weeknight bowl of noodles taste as if someone planned better than you did.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

The tribunal heard empty peanut tubs, which belonged to Gousto, were found in the same bin.

From BBC May 10, 2026

Wi Spa, with its hot and cold tubs, specialty saunas and napping nooks, has long been a beloved L.A. destination for rest and rejuvenation.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

In one popular video, Heidecker and Wareheim chatted about ice cubes and hot tubs with Zach Galifianakis in a video for Absolut Vodka.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

You have to understand, the worst penne pasta in Italy, the tubs of it they would give refugees, was still better than the Oklahoma City Olive Garden.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Our little party turned out, tubbed, took breakfast, and then, at the sound of the “assembly,” sallied forth to see what was to be the next item on the programme.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile

None the worse for the ducking and fright of the previous day, Rory was first up on this particular May-day, and tubbed and dressed long before either Allan or Ralph was awake.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

He caught the six o’clock express for town; tubbed, shaved, and lunched, at his Club.

From The Mistress of Shenstone by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

He then takes her to a winter wonderland for some light luging and hot tubbing.

From Time Jan. 14, 2014

This tubbing was perfectly tight, all the surfaces of the joints having been made even and provided with strips of lead one-tenth of an inch thick.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

During the Morrison wine which ended the season of tubbing on the river, the captain of the Balliol fifteen threw his arms about me, and besought me to play on the team.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

I sometimes see blackbirds, thrushes, and sparrows all tubbing at one time, and quite hilarious over it.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

A camel might have lived there with content; it was no place for a family used to the delights of tubbing.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.




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