crate
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Two practice journeys with a textile copy were previously made, to test the route and the crate.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
They hoisted it onto a crate, while one worker held its pointed top to keep it from falling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Moving a roughly 86-ton spacecraft, especially without damaging it, is not as simple as placing a Pablo Picasso in a padded crate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Wednesday, the Dalis family was asleep until their 3-year-old German shorthaired pointer began barking urgently from his unlocked crate in the master bedroom, according to homeowners Eleni and Tom Dalis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
But now it hit him: how strange it was that the ship had collided with the iceberg at the exact moment the scar-faced man had opened the lid of Mr. Burrows’s crate.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
For the 25,000th, someone made a throne of beer crates and sat on it, pint in hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
We took a lot of long walks to help deal with the stress of the not knowing, but the magic panacea for me came the day Steve’s Harley-Davidson arrived in one of the crates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Look at the sun," said Himanshu, a trader standing beside crates of tomatoes.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
When it is my turn, I ride with several of the common men and most of the chicken crates.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Staged in Philadelphia by Eleonora Gravagnola, it is set in a modern-day art gallery, where a traveling exhibit is being crated up for transfer to its next location.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
Dogs are not allowed inside unless they're crated, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Vendors crated their riches July 10 and put them on the truck destined for their next show at Pasadena Convention Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
At first, Ms. Sheridan crated Nala and left the apartment for a while each day to prepare the dog for their imminent separation.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
Without being asked, he’d get the chickens crated up to ship to Atlanta, and the cars washed, and I don’t know what all.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The workers were responsible for capturing and crating turkeys destined for slaughter, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Dwelling on Luger’s intentions with the piece, I was reminded of something I heard him mention while delivering a large ceramic bison skull for crating.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
DeJoy, 63, built a fortune by turning a small trucking company into a logistics giant that profited by warehousing and crating cargo and mail for delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
One theory holds that reducing stimuli at night might work, but she wasn’t sold on the idea of crating him in the dark for hours.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
I drew out a design for an A-frame signboard that the boys and I could build with crating scraps and place in front of the store.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
