tub
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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
I complain about the time commitments and travel and I’m never going to be interested in the tub of lukewarm scrambled eggs at the tournament hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The space came with a sunken bath tub, ornate ceilings and its own pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Spanning 3,180 square feet, the home is akin to a resort-level wellness retreat, offering a large cedar hot tub, a cold plunge, and a dry sauna.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The tub was a massive claw-footed affair of enameled copper.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The bathrooms boast large soaking tubs and chic vanities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
ALTER: Yes, but of course most of those tubs double as showers.
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
“Mother,” Judy said, bringing me back to the world of scrubbing tubs and toilets, “is it okay if I move into David’s room?”
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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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
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Have your prospective souvenir tree already tubbed and waiting.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
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 Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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
Thus, more and more Ruth turned to the mongrel dog who bore the name of Rollo unflinchingly—the dog that adored her openly, shamelessly, who now without a whimper took his diurnal tubbing.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
Dirty Dolly Naughty Miss Dolly played out in the mud, And got all her clothes quite black; And now such a rubbing, and scrubbing and tubbing As we have to give them, good lack!
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
And then, in strong contrast, are those who train enough in all conscience with 'gloves,' single-stick, sculls, and all suchlike appliances, and whose works take the form of tubbing, volunteering, and a general jovial philanthropy.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
Two of these were manned by workmen stationed upon the surface flooring, and the other two by workmen upon the flooring in the tubbing.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various