container

Example Sentences

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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

Boy and dog moved their heads in unison as they scanned the lower shelves, which were filled with plastic containers.

From Literature

"The strategically important cargo was discovered during checks on a sea container at the port of Saint Petersburg," the customs service said in a statement.

From Barron's