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tub

[tuhb] / tʌb /


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A day later Cardiff Rugby academy players found the tub while doing volunteering work, and handed it to park officials.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

ALTER: Everyone should have a stall shower, separate from the tub.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The pictures of a clearly uncomfortable Messi helping Sheila bathe her son in a blue plastic tub were published, then forgotten, until Yamal helped Spain win the 2024 European Championship.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

I bought a tub of amatriciana, flecked with visible hunks of guanciale and red pepper flakes, and a box of rigatoni.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

I stared at the tub, my heart fluttering against my breastbone.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

"It's never going to be here again, so I thought it was important to get an ice cream, and stock up with the tubs as well," she said.

From BBC May 30, 2026

There are pools, hot tubs and a lazy river, and canoe rentals.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Wi Spa, with its hot and cold tubs, specialty saunas and napping nooks, has long been a beloved L.A. destination for rest and rejuvenation.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

They were led into another white room, this one equipped with tin tubs and hoses.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

I brought up by one of the tubbed box-trees and peered in at the Pillar House with a new wonder.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Then he tubbed and dressed, and had a comfortable breakfast all by himself; for he was too experienced a traveller by this to let melancholy partings spoil his appetite.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter

Our little party turned out, tubbed, took breakfast, and then, at the sound of the “assembly,” sallied forth to see what was to be the next item on the programme.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile

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

From Time Jan. 14, 2014

This tubbing was perfectly tight, all the surfaces of the joints having been made even and provided with strips of lead one-tenth of an inch thick.

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

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 Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

The whole weight of the tubbing is made to bear on the moss, which squeezes outwards, forming a completely water-tight joint.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

I sometimes see blackbirds, thrushes, and sparrows all tubbing at one time, and quite hilarious over it.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon




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