tub

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Recent Examples of tub One neighbor was left with bits of toilet paper frozen into the snow in his backyard and spent the day heaving sewage out of his tub and toilet. ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026 Carve out some extra time to enjoy the alfresco deep soaking tub or take a mindful stroll among nature at the meditative labyrinth walk. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2026 No doubt Grover Norquist may fantasize about the Invisible Hand drowning the state in a bath-tub, but Smith was genuinely concerned with the question of societal happiness. Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026 Babyproof your home thoroughly (including anchoring furniture to the wall), and never leave a child under 5 in the tub alone. Barrie Gillies, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tub
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tub
Noun
  • For example, the Sloomoo Slime Gallery exhibit features waist-high glossy sculptures which double as vats of slime.
    Liz Regalia, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In the fluorescent glare of a rundown Indonesian wig factory, vats of human hair simmer in huge cauldrons, stirred by hunched laborers as rows of mannequin heads watch blankly from the dark.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Hayley — who turns out to be a hooker who does secretarial admin on the side and not an executive assistant who occasionally threesomes — is extorting him for $750,000.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Well, yes, there were also hookers and tequila girls and whatever else was going on in those offices.
    Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Their contractor installed a collection system on their metal roof, a 26,000-gallon underground cistern in the yard, and treatment modes including filtration, ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Some smaller-scale ideas have emerged, such as installing cisterns, tapping water from swimming pools, or even turning to mobile pumps and pipes that could quickly route water where it’s needed.
    Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Most ski-touring lodges are no-frills huts that cater to hardy mountaineers who’d balk at the idea of taking a gondola or a lift.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
  • At one point, the Phantom and Christine, the ingenue and the object of his obsession, glide toward you in a gondola, crossing an underground lake.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This popular Spanish-inspired dish was served in cockleshells so reminiscent the Galicia region of Spain’s cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela.
    Jane Napier Neely, La Cañada Valley Sun, 24 Apr. 2017
Noun
  • Participants will be limited to two large cardboard banker boxes or paper boxes not to exceed 10 pounds each.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His father was a banker for Georgia Railroad Bank, which became First Union, and his mother was a schoolteacher.
    Mark Curriden, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Under Chinese doctrine the landing would carried out in boats, landing craft and hovercraft dropped by motherships close to the horizon.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • One of the vessels appears to be a hovercraft.
    Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 7 Dec. 2025

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“Tub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tub. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.

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