crate

Example Sentences

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It arrived aboard a specially chartered plane but was not removed from its large wooden crate marked "fragile".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Video showed customs officers prying open a crate to find the rock, its surface grey and rugged.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Next to it stands the wooden crate on which Marat wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

It was such a rapid return that Pearce joked Robbie might want her farewell gift - a crate of champagne sent to the show's producers - returned.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

I wished I could tell Henrietta to put it in the crate, but she’s not exactly a trained superchicken.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones