jug
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Look, for instance, for a conductor with a clock as a face, dancing luggage and a cicada jug band, among a host of other oddities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Each time a downpour begins, Scott strips down to the waist, grabs a large glass jug, and runs out to one of three drainpipes to collect enough water to last the week.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
In 2025, the Starmer jug sold most, at 116, including 32 to his colleagues in parliament and further 84 online.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
At age 16, he met Garcia, 21, in Palo Alto, Calif., and they formed a jug band, shifting to electric instruments following the rapid popularity of the Beatles in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
I took one sip and handed the jug to Dadi.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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
Fortnight ago President Cardenas personally had him jugged for egging on an anti-Fascist crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
By "any person" Kelley specifically meant Martin Luther King, who had been jugged only a week earlier for the third time in eight months.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to taste all the food: the pigeon pies, the honey tarts, that suckling pig with the apple in its mouth, and the jugged hare.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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
The kegs he could not move alone, and set to work jugging the fluid from them.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
Ground game at that, for Coracle is in the act of "jugging" a hare.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
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