Recent Examples on the WebArrive at your campsite with water already filled in a seven-gallon Aqua Tainer, a plastic alternative like a five-gallon glass carboy, or Dometic's three-gallon hard-shell water jug with an optional powered faucet attachment.—Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2022 Beneath them sit carboys filled with homemade meads, fruit wines and perry.—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017 It can be siphoned to a 5-gallon carboy to allow extra time for clearing if desired, for about 7 days.—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 July 2017 It can be siphoned to a 5-gallon carboy to allow extra time for clearing if desired, for about 7 days.—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 July 2017 This milk takes the dubious prize for most additives: guar gum, carboy methyl cellulose, polysorbate 60, citric acid, sodium, sodium metabisulphite.—Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017 To get a sample from a flamingo-dotted pond on the island of Floreana, Venter, Hoffman, and others lugged 13-gallon carboys over a hill to be loaded onto the boat.—James Shreeve, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
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