tun

Example Sentences

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The tardigrade is then said to be in the "tun state."

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Using his typical mix of nasty sliders and biting curveball with a located fastball to keep hitters honest, he didn’t get a tun of help from his defense, which committed two errors.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Ryan Yarbrough allowed an unearned tun and two hits in two innings while striking out four.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2020

Besides this product the remains of five hogsheads of fish will produce one tun of pumice or fish guano, the best fertilizer known, and worth by itself $20 per tun.”

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2019

“It’s me, tun, Raymie. Raymie Clarke. I visited Isabelle a couple of days ago, and I was going to do a good deed?”

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo