bung
Example Sentences
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She has bricks to stand heavy furniture on if there is a flood warning, as well as freestanding pumps and sandbag substitutes ready, and even a toilet bung to prevent backflow.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2022
Lemish, like Kramer, is a diva, always ready to pull the bung from his emotions.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2020
Don’t bung them in with all your other laundry, that’s how they get irrevocably separated and, despite best intentions, post-wash pairing just doesn’t happen.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2019
They never knocked the bung out of the beer keg or danced a polka.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2019
With trembling lips she said, “And even if we had found the bung, we’d never’ve took it out! It was just a joke. We wouldn’t’ ve sunk it, never!”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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