How to Use jug in a Sentence

jug

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024