birdcage
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At one point, a dancer contorts herself as she carries Particle, tucked in a birdcage, across a room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
There's a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2020
Penelope was not interested in weaving and bobbing through the party like a birdcage on a luggage trolley.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
She lives in an antebellum mansion in rural Tennessee surrounded by books — many of them kept in antique birdcages for some reason — and no parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
The house on Bartram Road would be cleared of its birdcages after Angelou’s death in 2014.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
