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snug

[snuhg] / snʌg /


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From 20-course omakase tasting menus to snug sushi bars, here’s where to find the best and freshest sushi in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Starting at a long side, roll into a snug log.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

They will be kept "snug and warm" in the site's aviaries over the winter months when the attraction is closed, with Jimmy likening his role to the "ultimate hotel service for birds".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

A Hypershell spokesman said that a snug, proper fit and a lower level of assistance can help on unstable terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Some nights he favored button-down shirts with clip-on ties, while other evenings I arrived to find him dressed in flared slacks and snug turtleneck sweaters, a swag of love beads hanging from, his neck.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

We take a seat in one of the basement snugs of the Mayfair space.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2014

I look into the snugs where the women drink and in all the men’s lavatories.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Yet beside thee he snugs on the settle As thou seamest thy broidery,—that rhymester!

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

She don't know me, though she lays her head on my arm and snugs up to me awful neat.

From Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes

Certainly, there’s more data on snugger suits, tighter-fitting caps and more aerodynamic goggles.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

With this stowed in the fridge, there is no meal you cannot make snugger at the drop of a dime.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2022

I fastened the Goggles back onto my skull, adjusting for a snugger fit.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020

Jantzen figured out how to make a superior wool unitard with a rib-stitch that retained its shape and allowed a snugger fit than all the other swimsuits out there.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019

It was a stern and wild scene, but he knew that it made the snug cove and the log cabins all the snugger.

From The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It ought to be collapsing, wrecked by the move to the tablets, which fit existing magazine page sizes for the snuggest transition.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2012

This is surely the snuggest and most congenial of the top film festivals; so if some of Portman's acclaim rubs off on Venice, that's fine.

From Time ● Sep. 4, 2010

It is three-dimensional, its lands are in rapid motion, and its snuggest harbors are more dangerous than the earth's most hostile coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’d wear my snuggest jeans and lay on some extra bracelets and sometimes bring one of the Gore sisters along to boost my visibility in the stands.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They were ould frinds and playmates, the son and daughter of two of the snuggest farmers on the estate; and I well knew before I sailed for Amerikay they were engaged to be married.

From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn

Yes, Washington’s people had almost all snugged up to thriving Seattle or Bellingham, and yes, our population had shrunk for 10 years running.

From Slate ● May 28, 2022

I snugged the blankets under his chin, clicked on the night light? and pulled the door softly closed.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2018

He screwed the cap back and snugged the sack under the seat.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2018

Mr. Curtain was snugged into the padded chair with a seat belt across his chest and lap, and the chair rolled so quickly that his thick white hair flew back from his head.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

That had been remedied by snugging up a few bolts, according to Wilson.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2017

Minutes later, it was snugging a Port Orchard Marina float.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2014

Taking care to avoid spooking the financial markets, Volcker conjured a warm-sounding euphemism for the Fed's action, which he described as "snugging."

From Time Magazine Archive

I started the stitch three times and then pushed the needle through the hide and slowly pulled, snugging up the beads almost like Sela had.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Meantime Bill Brudenell deliberately completed the work of superintending the "snugging" of the canoes for the night.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum




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