Thesaurus results for PITCHER

pitcher

noun

ˈpi-chər

Definition of pitcher

as in jug

a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table

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Recent Examples of pitcher The only other pitcher 25 or younger with more in the last 110 years was the Los Angeles Angels' Dean Chance with 22 in 1964, according to Major League Baseball. — ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026 Fedde allowed two runs on four hits with one strikeout and one walk in 5 1/3 innings as the bulk pitcher following opener Hagen Smith. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 His presence could give the team four solid pitchers in the rotation to take on any team. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Harry Coyle, an NBC Sports staff director, cemented his place in sports history with his brainstorm in 1955 that a camera placed just right in center field would better capture a 360-view of the duel between the batter and the pitcher. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pitcher

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Noun

Over the last decade, the jug has become a staple in her life.

— Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
When a friend pointed out some weighted bags lining the path at the bottom of the staircase one day, the siblings quickly abandoned the water jug idea.

— Jenna Belhumeur, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of jug

Noun

Flora’s professional experience this year will be more like a cup of coffee.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
As September welcomes fall to New England, the kids are back in school, pumpkin spice is back in your cup, and soon the leaves will once again transform into a vibrant palette of oranges and reds.

— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of cup

Noun

It’s most often seen in adults, and common causes include using heating pads or hot water bottles for chronic pain or sitting too close to space heaters.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
Similarly, patterns on the distinctive bi-color bottles of Dries Van Noten perfume, launched in 2022, had never been used in his fashions, but sometime after the launch, the Belgian designer created some clothes using some of the prints.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of bottle

Noun

Somewhere between Venice and Paris, just as afternoon tea was served—raspberry tartlets and biscotti squisiti, coffee poured from silver ewers into porcelain cups—JR, the French artist known for his public installations, was starting to freak out.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Inspired by antiques like cobalt glass, Egyptian glass ewers and hotel breakfast sets and mid-20th-century Italian glassware, Jacobsen came up with the Continental Collection.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025

Definition of ewer

Noun

After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum.

— Pearse Anderson, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023

Definition of flagon

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