crate
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Natalie Wood, formerly named Cypress, sits in a crate after being trapped at Angel City Lumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her home.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
A plastic crate holds more wood in waiting.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
In one case a baby Komodo dragon was hidden in plain sight, inside a crate of ordinary monitor lizards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I swipe snow off the top of the crate, step up, and look at our refuge.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
Rather than people, his focus is on shells and other sea detritus, which he arranged in discarded crates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
A police search team spent a week in the Met's property warehouse, going through more than 200 large crates in the hope of finding the missing exhibits.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Two weeks later, after packing most of his belongings into U-Haul shipping crates, we left Parkersburg, W.Va., in Steve’s red Volkswagen Golf with two suitcases, one Treeing Walker Coonhound and one Aussie/Chow mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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 best chance of getting it safely to Britain was to pack it in huge crates and send it by sea.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The work will be crated and shipped in waves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
He collected fragments from a pig-size guinea pig, armor plates from a tanklike armadillo, more elephantine bones from elephantine sloths, and crated and shipped them to England.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The workers were responsible for capturing and crating turkeys destined for slaughter, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Dwelling on Luger’s intentions with the piece, I was reminded of something I heard him mention while delivering a large ceramic bison skull for crating.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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
Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017
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
