crate
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A plastic crate holds more wood in waiting.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
It has taken almost two years to plan, including building a special temperature-controlled crate for him, and co-ordinating complex paperwork across two countries.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The atomic bomb in the crate that a helicopter carefully deposits in Carol’s driveway in the last scene?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
These crate paintings lay groundwork for Gottlieb’s pictograph series, which would become a signature for him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Not to mention that every time I imagined pulling the wagonload home, I imagined that hawk picking up the crate and carrying it off.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
Yuriy said he and his wife had started to lay out crates of vegetables next to his van when he heard a distinctive buzzing sound overhead.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
The back rooms of the La Brea Tar Pits are, at the moment, a maze of packing crates tagged with handwritten sticky notes that say things like “bison skulls” or “camel hip.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
They flash IDs and walk away clutching crates like they’ve just collected treasure from a Swiss vault.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
There was an old potbellied stove in the corner and a bunch of wooden crates that Cully used for furniture.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount of ancient vertebrae — all of it will be swaddled, catalogued and crated for the next two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
Metal mesh doors can be added so you can close them when your pet needs to be crated.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
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
I hurried to the kitchen, where she was crated.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
The workers were responsible for capturing and crating turkeys destined for slaughter, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 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
Expenses for shows with valuable historical pieces lie in crating, shipping and insurance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
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
