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 soon came across what was left of the Reich Chancellery - the very heart of Nazi power - and, in the garden, found a couple of discarded jerry cans.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023
She propped her camera on a five-gallon-size rumpled jerry can that at one time contained cooking oil, and set the timer.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
