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 30-year-old right-handed pitcher fired what appeared to be a strike. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 May 2025 The Kansas City Royals got a serviceable start from right-handed pitcher Michael Lorenzen on Tuesday night. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025 Curtis, who died last week at age 88, made his big league debut as the starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs on April 22, 1961. Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025 He was called up to make his debut last May, and hasn't gone down since, instantly becoming one of the best pitchers in the league. Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitcher
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Noun
  • Bring gloves, utility scissors and a clean milk jug.
    Staff report, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Councell tapped a plastic jug the size of a garden shed containing sugar water, nearby another full of corn syrup.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • The drink gained nationwide popularity in December 2021 when singer Olivia Rodrigo posted a picture of herself holding a Swig cup on Instagram.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • One of our last photos of him was taken inside that diner, grinning at us over an orange coffee cup.
    Gwen Rockwood, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • In a sleek, lilac bottle, the elegant formula is also made with silk extract.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 May 2025
  • Unlike flowers that may send your recipient running for a vase or a bottle of wine that requires chilling, a puzzle can sit out on a picnic table all afternoon, no harm, no foul.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2024
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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“Pitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitcher. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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