tankard

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Recent Examples of tankard The official Royal Collection shops only released their coronation collection on Friday, and by Wednesday they were sold out online of their English fine bone china coronation coffee mugs and tankards, as well as a coronation biscuit tin. Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023 Food and other beverages, such as tankards of ale, will be available for purchase from the Portland Spirit galley. oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023 Life in the Gladney house carries on in a state of messy domestic bliss, tempered with the usual petty irritations and complaints — until the day a highly flammable tankard collides with a train outside of town, and a noxious black plume appears on the horizon. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2022 And by the end of the 18th Century, a sitting American President (John Adams) was proudly admitting to drinking a tankard of the juice every morning to calm his stomach. Brad Japhe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021 See All Example Sentences for tankard
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Noun
  • Perhaps the future of data was not a data center, with its humming servers and blinking lights, but a wet lab with beakers and an emergency shower.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Bonanza Coffee Alte Schönhauser Str. 15 Created for serious coffee drinkers, Berlin caters to those who like their juice from beakers served by chemists rather than baristas.
    Melinda Newman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Expect pictures from various party headquarters, with everyone huddled around lead candidates — champagne flutes or beer steins in hand, depending on the party — waiting for those first results.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The ceremonial keg tapping takes place Friday evening, and the weekend lineup includes a German chocolate cake baking contest, a stein hoisting contest, and a chicken dance competition (costumes and creativity encouraged).
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • To make a bleach bath, add anywhere from a quarter to a half cup of 5-6% bleach to a tub full of warm water.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The simple act of boiling water in a new kettle will leave you with between six million and eight million microplastic particles per cup, Boland and his colleagues found.
    Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The fashion consultant, who is squeezing in a session before work, lifts relatively light weights while doing simple movements to build strength: goblet squats with a 6-pound kettlebell, then bicep curls with a 10-pound weight.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There was also a lamp decorated with the image of a menorah and palm branch, and an intact glass goblet.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The communion chalice and plate held special significance.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Many analysts now loudly wonder whether Khamenei, too, will drink his chalice of poison.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Tankard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tankard. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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