crate

Example Sentences

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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

The rate is even less for picking grapefruit, which pays $8 to $10 per 500-pound crate, according to the father and the two teens.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

He’d need it for prying off the lid of the crate.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis