How to Use jug in a Sentence

jug

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  • But the Gophers painted the jug brown and wrote the score on it.
    — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Stand tall with feet hip-width apart and hold the jug with both hands.
    — Kelly Dinardo, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Coaches used to come in and break sticks and throw Gatorade jugs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The teen, instead, had a coolant jug in his hand, when shot by Davis.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2022
  • His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chron, 18 July 2022
  • The little plastic jug in front of her was marked milk.
    — Elizabeth McCracken, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • If his golf resort had a swimming pool, a dip in the pool and a jug of brown paint could have done the trick.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • Since the vehicle wouldn't park, King placed a jug of coolant behind the wheel.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 20 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a story about two frogs that fell into a jug of sour cream.
    — Alexander Stein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The video shows the man come back two hours later, swinging a half-gallon jug of milk.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • When the elders win, Mingo and John Valentine drink from a jug of wine.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
  • And so a letter, Harvey said, might take him eight seconds to add to a band on the jug’s base.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • Curbside BBQ remains the only place to buy them, and a 32-ounce jug costs $55.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The teen had stopped his truck along the side of the highway, and was carrying a jug of anti-freeze when Sgt.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
  • Cooke, Minnesota’s AD, painted the score on the jug in large script, just as the Gophers had in 1903.
    — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Once upon a time, a young shepherd on his lunch break brought his chunk of white cheese and jug of wine to the Roquefort caves.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There is a smoking monkey at left and a water lily jaguar (with a small jug at the tip of its tail) in the middle.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Each valley appears filled from the bottom with houses, as if they’d been poured from a jug in the sky.
    — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But now, inside the rear house, there was a gallon jug of water and a bag of peanuts on a Formica kitchen counter.
    — Francesca Mari, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • It is said that his whiskey was used as a form of currency and that his land deals would end with a handshake and a jug of it.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Smith made his last birdie and the engraver went to work on the claret jug, a prize first awarded to the 1873 champion at St. Andrews.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Other questions asked students to set a price for items such as a bushel of grain, a piece of lumber and a jug of milk.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • First the clay jug is filled with beef, tomatoes, bell pepper, garlic and a knob of butter.
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
  • To make a handy lightweight bowl, cut off the bottom third of an empty gallon jug.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Fill a jug with water and open the spout to let the water flow into the environment.
    — oregonlive, 12 May 2020
  • Tlacuapa was nearly knocked to the ground when a gallon jug of water came flying through the air.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The brick shack on the outskirts of Venezuela’s capital is crowded with tubs, jugs, and buckets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Along with pouches, pickle juice now comes in cans, bottles and jugs.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Quesnell prayed over a globe, a jug of water, a balloon to symbolize air and a pile of dirt.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Origins trace to 1903, when Michigan used a jug to prevent Minnesota from doing anything to its water supply.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022

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