jug
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Put tea bags in a jug of cool water and refrigerate overnight.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Within the exhibition halls, a bedroom, living room and kitchen -- complete with a glass jug, coffee pot, and spice containers -- recreate details of daily life in the homes of southern Lebanese residents.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
The teen behind the lawsuit told The Times he remembers one of his classmates getting sick after drinking from the same jug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Warren Hood, who has been equally at home with symphonic music and in jug bands, provides an often central and dominant fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
“All I need is an empty pretzel jug and a big freezer bag.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Others include jugged hare and flummery - an oat-based fermented jelly, associated with farmhouse production and poverty.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Without tannins, cider can taste flabby, one-dimensional, limp—and in need of flavorings to mask the fact that it tastes like, well, jugged juice.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2016
In Casper, Wyo., L. D. Mudge bravely entered a police station to bail out a pal, got jugged as an escaped prisoner when a cop saw through his set of false whiskers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortnight ago President Cardenas personally had him jugged for egging on an anti-Fascist crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
People’s mouths moved, their feet moved, a car jugged by—but with no sound.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
According to a recent report from ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the city of Austin has had 84 jugging cases this year.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
According to the FBI, jugging has surged during the pandemic.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
When the Marathon was three-fourths finished, he was just an obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You don’t want that brass falling out, and them tracing you down here and jugging you–you fool,” she panted as she climbed to the ground.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
The kegs he could not move alone, and set to work jugging the fluid from them.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
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