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How to use jug in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Jug means a serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. Example: “I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.”

Examples of jug by meaning

nounJail.

  • You don't want me put in jug do you?'1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
  • My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug.1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957, page 19

verbTo utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

  • Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.1916, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 8, in The Exploits of Danby Croker

nounA small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

  • 2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited
  • 2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business
  • She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross.2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group

nounDetention (after-school student punishment).

  • “Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”1970, Kenneth H. Brown, The Narrows, New York City: The Deal Press, via Google Books
  • I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.2017 June 12, Stephen, N., S.J. Katsouros, Come To Believe: How the Jesuits are Reinventing Education (Again), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis...
  • In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.2017 September, Tom Healey, “Jug 'Em with a Jugum”, in Lessons from Loyola Hall, Cleveland: Saint Ignatius High School, retrieved 24 Nov...

verbTo issue a detention (to a student).

  • Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher.2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN...
  • He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6

verbTo acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).

  • I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.

More sentences with jug

  • Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.From the entry garbage
  • He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.From the entry stream
  • The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.From the entry full
  • I picked up a jug of cider for the kids.From the entry cider
  • I was so pumped by the end of the climb that I could barely hold onto the jugs.From the entry pumped
  • Be careful with that jug! The water is spilling out.From the entry spill out
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:claret jug.From the entry claret jug
  • Can you undent the milk jug?From the entry undent
  • “The jug goes to the well until it breaks,” said Xandi.2015, Hermann Kauders, And God Created Bedbugs Too, →ISBN. From the entry the jug goes to the well until it breaks
  • In Milan, jugged hare is flavoured with grated chocolate, which adds colour and depth to the sauce.2013, Anna Del Conte, Gastronomy of Italy, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry hare
  • And as always in such cases: the jug goes to the well until it breaks!2013, Hubert Kennedy -, The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry the jug goes to the well until it breaks
  • It's propped against a jug, but all that is matterless now.2009, John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun. From the entry matterless
  • When ordering a beer, you'll get either a handle (mug) or a one-liter jug (pitcher).2008, Stephanie E. Butler, Fodor's 2009 New Zealand, →ISBN, page 571. From the entry handle
  • I found a half-full plastic milk jug with no lid and not one single lemon.2007, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston McDaniels, Phineas L. MacGuire... Gets Slimed!: The Second Experiment. From the entry smushy
  • Especially frequently they used various jugs, including oinokhoes –with three- or fourpetal mouth.2003, Dēmētrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. Petropoulos, editors, Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea, volume 1, Archaeological Institute…. From the entry oinokhoe
  • Endless stories about classes, exams, and campus events complemented the everflowing jug of guilesome gossip.2002, Rajeev Prasad, Reinkarmation, page 263. From the entry guilesome
  • Among shapes so far discovered are teapots, mugs, jugs, coffee cups, bowls, plates, sauceboats and a spoontray.1985, Martin Miller, Judith Miller, compilers, Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 1986, volume VII, Maidstone, Kent: M.J.M. Publications Ltd.…. From the entry spoontray
  • Jug 1½ ins. high, cups 1 in. high, plate 1¼ ins. diameter.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 236. From the entry underglaze
  • I loved their shouts of welcome as I trudged across the fields carrying the heavy jug.1964, Long Island Forum, volumes 27-29, page 169. From the entry tarten
  • On the bedside table were a bottle of gin, a jug of water, and a glass.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 381. From the entry blearily
  • Jugs 9-10 and 15 are obviously the last vestiges of earlier duochrome ware.1931, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization - Issues 13-17, page 8. From the entry duochrome
  • There were silver tongs for the sugar, apostle spoons with elaborate handles, a milk jug adorned with a pheasant in flight.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114. From the entry apostle spoon
  • I mean really, who needs a date stamped on the jug to tell you when milk has gone bad?2013 October 12, Steve Blow, “Beward of toxic milk — and other expiration-date silliness”, in The Dallas Morning News. From the entry blinky
  • Pour the milk into a jug, add the rose water, rose syrup, elachi powder and sugar to taste.2011, Shaida Kazie Ali, Not a Fairytale, Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN. From the entry elachi
  • Packed in one-gallon plastic milk jugs, it's shipped to eastern cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Miami and New York.2007, Matthew B. Rowley, Moonshine!, Sterling Publishing Company, page 70. From the entry splo
  • And the handiest container was the little brown jug.1996, Jay Fields, Brad Campbell, “Circle the Mountain”, in The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina, Asheville, N.C.: HandMade…. From the entry jugware
  • A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.1993, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 10, in Moonflower Madness, Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry wedding-cake
  • And I put my hands on her jugs.1993, John Lahr, The Manchurian Candidate: A Play [...] From the Novel by Richard Condon, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN…. From the entry watch one's language

Meaning of jug

  1. noun A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
  2. noun The amount that a jug can hold.
  3. noun Jail.

Full definition of jug

Questions about jug in a sentence

How do you use jug in a sentence?
Jug is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.”
What is a short sentence with jug?
“Can you undent the milk jug?”
What does jug mean?
Jug means a serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.

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