JUG in a Sentence

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44 example sentences for JUG, such as:

1. He let the jug fall on the floor, and it broke in pieces.
2. The beer ran into the jug and Catherine stood looking on.
3. The breaking of his jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion.
4. All his furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug.
5. The fragments of the jug broke, and after an hour of useless toil, he paused.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jug
 n.  the quantity contained in a jug
 v.  stew in an earthenware jug
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
3  After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
4  And then he had fetched away a three-gallon jug of whisky, too, that he found under a wagon when he was starting home through the woods.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
5  Jorindel turned to see the reason, and beheld his Jorinda changed into a nightingale, so that her song ended with a mournful jug, jug.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
6  So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
7  The beer ran into the jug and Catherine stood looking on.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
8  Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
9  All his furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
10  Dantes had but one resource, which was to break the jug, and with one of the sharp fragments attack the wall.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
11  He let the jug fall on the floor, and it broke in pieces.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
12  The breaking of his jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
13  The fragments of the jug broke, and after an hour of useless toil, he paused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
14  First you break your jug, then you make me break your plate; if all the prisoners followed your example, the government would be ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
15  A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Example Sentence:
1  As you take your new road, We wish you a cup of success, A pint of happiness, And a jug of achievements.
2  After looking at the jug, Faulkner concurred that it was late Roman, third or fourth century.