container

Example Sentences

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Pour in two containers of crumbled goat cheese.

From Salon

A sign hanging from a rusty ice-green shipping container installed by Thai forces on what they say is the border with Cambodia proclaims: "Cambodian citizens are strictly prohibited from entering this area."

From Barron's

Port director Bethann Rooney said terminal lease extensions require that tenants increase a terminal’s capacity by modernizing chokepoints such as ship berths, container yards and truck gates.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead of freezing, it transforms from a normal gas into a superfluid, a rare state of matter that flows without any resistance and displays strange behaviors, including creeping up the sides of containers.

From Science Daily

A metal rack in one corner held car supplies—spare containers of oil, a big jug of windshield wiper fluid, a little vacuum that sat ready on its charger.

From Literature