stow
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An impending heatwave has threatened to stow away — or rather, further preserve — countless tins of anchovies.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
The bigger challenge is to stow away enough fuel for next winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Yet Trương doesn’t solely focus on these two young lovers, nor on Nam’s specific plan to stow himself away for good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
Flights do not include "trolley bags" to stow in overhead compartments or checked baggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
Maybe she could hitch a ride to somewhere with an airport and stow away on a plane.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
She stows a small knitted figurine of legendary England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, made for her by a friend's grandmother when Aldcroft was a teenager, in her kit bag for every game.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
A number of guest rooms also have flexible sleeping setups, like a queen bed that stows into the wall, and a bunk bed with a lower queen bed and an upper twin bed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
The 2.4Ghz wireless dongle stows neatly away in the base of the chassis.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022
Tyler Hamilton, 24, started as one of the workers who scans items as they come into the warehouse and stows them on the shelves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
At home, in the evenings, her father stows their shoes in the same cubby, hangs their coats on the same hooks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
American forces stowed a shadow-fleet tanker it pursued from Venezuela in a British port earlier this year, but Rowlands said he wasn’t aware of any agreements that would enable a similar arrangement with Gulf states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Naturally, it was stowed away in a high-limit room.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
Tchiroma, stowed away in his residence since Monday, said Friday that part of the army was protecting him and called for public support through a "ghost towns" strategy from Monday to Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
They stowed away most of their jewelry into a safe just after 2 p.m., according to relatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
At ten minutes to noon, Roy and Beatrice arrived; this time she rode the handlebars and he pedaled, the camera stowed safely in his backpack.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have been stowing gear and preparing the Lockheed Martin-developed Orion capsule for the descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Resources are also being used to try to prevent migrants stowing away on cross-channel freight.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
By day, they collected healthy spruce tree leaves and fresh mosses and lichens from the ground, stowing their scientific treasure in zip-close bags as they went.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
A woman found two people stowing away in her trunk after she drove from Mexico to her job in San Diego last week.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2023
Mo was stowing Dustfinger's bags in the back of the van.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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