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tub

[tuhb] / tʌb /


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The DJ was silhouetted by a large window display of a gigantic, human-sized plastic re-creation of Raising Cane’s chicken tenders and crinkle-cut fries being dipped into a tub of Cane’s Sauce.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Rogan’s Instagram account reveals he’s made several upgrades to the mansion, including adding a cold plunge tub and a sauna.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

A red cartoon hunk of steak, a bronzed turkey, a few shrimp, a tub of unsweetened yogurt, an apple and a bag of frozen peas cascade alongside him.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

It has an infrared sauna and a huge hot tub that can fit up to like 20 people.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The white sink, the commode, and the tub with the nickel-plated fixtures glowed in the pale moonlight.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The bathrooms boast large soaking tubs and chic vanities.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

WSJ: But most bathrooms don’t have free-standing tubs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

It has tubs of brown butter, frozen flat or portioned into little pucks, ready to make a weeknight bowl of noodles taste as if someone planned better than you did.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

Officially called a "temporary use ban" - meaning it only applies to domestic use of hosepipes for actions like filling paddling pools and hot tubs, washing cars and windows, and watering the garden.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

A rotisserie chicken, a couple of plastic tubs of things covered in mayonnaise, a watermelon wedge, a couple of bottles of Polar Seltzer, and a bakery bag of cookies.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Then I turned the corner: Freezers lined with beautiful tubbed sauces and pastas.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The little garden was white and pink with roses and camellias, and the tubbed mandarins were heavy with fruit.

From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher

Not a leaf is out of place; they have evidently been groomed and tubbed and manicured from the hour of their birth.

From Alone by Norman Douglas

Then he tubbed, and continued this game of follow-the-leader throughout the entire toilette, affably talking all the while, until Dale emerged a different looking, and a much more gratified, man.

From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris

He then takes her to a winter wonderland for some light luging and hot tubbing.

From Time Jan. 14, 2014

All this, however, is a digression from the freshman whom we have seen safely through his tubbing troubles, and have selected for a Lent Boat.

From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann

The claw at the extremity of the bar pulled out everything within its reach, and thus made an absolutely free passage for the tubbing.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

He had the habit of personal cleanliness, had Ben, in a day when tubbing was a ceremony and in an environment that made bodily nicety difficult.

From Half Portions by Edna Ferber

During the Morrison wine which ended the season of tubbing on the river, the captain of the Balliol fifteen threw his arms about me, and besought me to play on the team.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin




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