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Recent Examples of tubThe protesters allegedly formed a chain that obstructed the street by having their hands interlocked in a tub inside barrels and linking arms with each other.—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 8 June 2026 To refresh your washing machine, pour a few cups of white vinegar into the tub and run the hottest cycle.—Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026 In February 2026, Biles shared even more snaps from inside the home, showing off a luxurious bathroom with marble walls and a tub with gold hardware.—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 The accompanying en suite is a minimal space with a vintage-looking soaking tub.—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for tub
This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
Bemis, sold by her family in China and sent to America, worked as a domestic, not as a hooker.
In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
The find included six large rooms, including one almost 1,000 square feet in area, and the remains of olive oil production equipment, channels for funneling the oil into collection basins, a cistern for storing the oil, and pieces of ceramic vessels.
Naples Island, a short 15-minute drive away, offers opportunities for year-round whale watching or a romantic gondola ride with Gondola Getaways, the oldest and largest fleet of gondolas in the Americas, established in 1982.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 June 2026
Imagine taking a gondola through the sky to a magical, floating boarding school.
Founded in 2003 by conceptual artist Michael Callies, a graduate of Frankfurt’s Stadelschüle, and former banker Stephan Jaax, dépendance resisted the explosive growth model pursued by many other galleries at the dawn of the millennium.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
11 June 2026
Co-founded by Michael Callies, a former artist, and Stephan Jaax, a former banker, the gallery resisted expansion during its over two-decade-long history.
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.
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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.
The hovercraft tragedy underscores the rapidly changing weather conditions, dangerous waves and strong winds associated with Lake Baikal, reports indicated.