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
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
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
I also seent where it slows right on down, like it’s fighting its way through a big invisible jug of molasses.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
Sixty years after Teller William Sydney Porter was jugged for embezzling $854.08 from an Austin bank, the Texas Heritage Foundation asked the President for a posthumous pardon.
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
The kegs he could not move alone, and set to work jugging the fluid from them.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
Ground game at that, for Coracle is in the act of "jugging" a hare.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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