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How to use tub in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Tub means a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. Example: “He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.”

Examples of tub by meaning

nounA flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for...

  • He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

nounThe contents or capacity of such a vessel.

  • She added a tub of margarine to the stew.

nounA small cask.

  • a tub of gin

nounA box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.

  • The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.1958 September, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613

nounA corpulent or obese person.

  • One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 139

nounThe bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the...

  • Every street or race car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub.2017 February 10, Máté Petrány, McLaren Will Start Building its Own Carbon Fiber Tubs, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2023

verbTo plant, set, or store in a tub.

  • to tub a plant

More sentences with tub

  • Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.From the entry plug
  • An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.From the entry wrinkle
  • This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.From the entry pickle
  • Her hairdryer fell into the tub while she was bathing, and she was electrocuted.From the entry electrocute
  • The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.From the entry sound
  • Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.From the entry fizz
  • The water companies did not bring it in huge plastic tubs.2025, Banu Mushtaq, “The Shroud”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 174. From the entry Zamzam
  • His photograph shows two large tubs made of paperbark and sewn with lawyer cane.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 87. From the entry lawyer cane
  • The antimidge machine will help you enjoy the deck and hot tub.2016, Fodor's Scotland. From the entry antimidge
  • One room has a pink marble bathroom with a gold fleur de lys pattern around the tub.2013 April 26, Lesley Gillian, The Guardian. From the entry fleur-de-lis
  • On a stool beyond the tub a bottle and glass, appled brandy.2011, Kassten Alonso, Core: A Romance, page 118. From the entry appled
  • These tubs when derailed had to be lifted on with sheer brute strength.2010, Derek Hollows, Voices in the Dark: Pony Talk and Mining Tales, page 79. From the entry braffin
  • You can find refrigerated prechopped onions in tubs in the produce aisle along with prechopped peppers.2006, Shea Waggoner, Homemade in Half the Time, page 24. From the entry prechopped
  • Took a long soak in the tub and wrote a well-knotted set of scalic bass lines.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry scalic
  • “Woman, bring a tub!” the second fellow also called when he was arriving at home.2001, Pavol Dobšinský, collector; David L. Cooper, editor and translator, “Two Rascals”, in Traditional Slovak Folktales, Armonk, N.Y.…. From the entry flour-monger
  • The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub.1999, Cruise Travel, page 47. From the entry walk-in
  • Pour the oobleck into a water table or into plastic tubs to place on tables.1998, Kathy Charner, The Giant Encyclopedia of Science Activities for Children 3 to 6. From the entry oobleck
  • Biggs, even Argyle — were bailing like sixty, trying to stay afloat in their sorry little tubs.1995, James P. Blaylock, All the Bells on Earth, page 269. From the entry like sixty
  • Pocahontas, damp and betoweled, leaves the hot tub to set up the buffet.1992, Gracie, “Heavy Metal Sex Party: A True Account”, in Future Sex, page 47. From the entry betoweled
  • Sometimes a tub will settle at one corner, causing the rim to slope.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry settle
  • In Florida the people catch fish, not just stringsful, but big tubs full.1951 October 11, Mary Willbanks, “A Trip to Florida”, in The Southern Democrat, volume LVIII, number 1, Oneonta, Ala.. From the entry stringful
  • There was a lovely big bath room with both a tub and a Roman shower.1922, Margaret Penrose, The Radio Girls on Station Island, or The Wireless from the Steam Yacht, New York: Cupples & Leon Company, page 147. From the entry Roman shower
  • The day of bucketry has dawned again, and buckets, churns, piggins, tubs were exhibited.1902, Drawing and Manual Training Journal, volumes 1-2, page 124. From the entry bucketry
  • This whole tub needs to be re-caulked.2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck). From the entry caulking
  • North American tubs are not grippable, so people can slip as they try to get in or out of the tub.2009 March 21, Donna Laporte, “Architect draws global inspiration for universal design”, in Toronto Star. From the entry grippable
  • She had a sleeping chamber complete with a necessary room attached and a hot tub in the corner.2005, Larry W. Miller, The Conquest of New Eden/Sins of the Father, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry necessary room
  • Carry a small tub of grease (e.g.2004 12, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Malcolm Greenhalgh and Denys Ovenden, The Flyfisher's Handbook: The Natural Foods of Trout and Grayling and…. From the entry flotant
  • "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America. From the entry oink
  • The pony was hitched to the tub after breakfast and a rein looped over a hook outside the saddleroom door.1982, Moore, Aubrey, A son of the rectory : from Leicestershire to the Somme, A. Sutton, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry saddleroom
  • Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93. From the entry porcelainize
  • He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 126. From the entry seam
  • Aint that bath tub alrite?” sez Rameses.1927, Albert J. Bromley, “Men Wot Histery Have Overlooked”, in Tha Return Uv Snowshoe Al, Minton, Balch, page 97. From the entry apple grease
  • “Merely by placing your head in a tub of hot pineapple jam and keeping him there until satisfied,” he pulmote.1924 March 23, Wallace Irwin, “Letters Of A Japanese Schoolboy: Togo Prefers His Own Style Of Beauty”, in The Sun, volume 24, number 12D…. From the entry afraidly

Meaning of tub

  1. noun A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
  2. noun The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
  3. noun A bathtub.

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Questions about tub in a sentence

How do you use tub in a sentence?
Tub is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.”
What is a short sentence with tub?
“a tub of gin”
What does tub mean?
Tub means a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

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