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
A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
They pulled him in his cart loaded with its 20 jerry cans to all his customers.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024
Behind her, one of the firemen placed the charred remnants of the jerry can into the truck—to send to the insurance company, she had no doubt.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
