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verb

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Recent Examples of jug
Noun
As the jug loses pressure, the water will start to trickle out more slowly. New Atlas, 23 Aug. 2025 In fact, its revenue is split 50/50 between mostly drive-thru sales with some delivery of large iced tea jugs, and 50% in-café sales. Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
The key to jugging's success is surprise and timing. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2025 Sure, jugging a mom-and-coach role isn’t always smooth. Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jug
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jug
Noun
  • Urquidy, though, is as good a hope as any the Tigers have for a pitcher who could bolster their staff.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Just as former star pitcher Mark Mulder was about to make his speech in his new green jacket, the ballpark’s fire alarm rang out.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman, whose social media presence attracted millions of followers before his Saturday arrest on a domestic battery count, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $350 bond, court records showed.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This one is made with clear pockets and slots to put your bottles into.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • What if your old bottle of cooking oil could help save the planet and your smartphone?
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Prisoners look out of their cell at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Arafat’s successor, current PA President Mahmoud Abbas, has banished and imprisoned opponents and critics.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Lula was imprisoned in 2018, but he was released in November 2019 after the Supreme Court ruled that defendants can’t be jailed before exhausting appeal options.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Top with remaining 1/2 cup apples and 1/2 cup nougat bars.
    Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This Amazon version features the same suede leather construction, adjustable metal buckle straps, and non-slip outsole, along with a cork footbed with a deep heel cup for lightweight cushioning and arch support.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.
    Violet Goldstone, WWD, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.
    Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023

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“Jug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jug. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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