stow
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The bigger challenge is to stow away enough fuel for next winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
She arranges for Paddington to stow away on a cargo ship to England and tells him to write to her at the Home for Retired Bears.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
Travelers who are confused about what’s OK to stow in checked or carry-on bags can consult the “What Can I Bring?” feature in the MyTSA app.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2024
Flights do not include "trolley bags" to stow in overhead compartments or checked baggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
He did as she suggested, handing her the Cloak to stow in the beaded bag.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
She stows a small knitted figurine of legendary England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, made for her by a friend's grandmother when Aldcroft was a teenager, in her kit bag for every game.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
A number of guest rooms also have flexible sleeping setups, like a queen bed that stows into the wall, and a bunk bed with a lower queen bed and an upper twin bed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
Tyler Hamilton, 24, started as one of the workers who scans items as they come into the warehouse and stows them on the shelves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Chorus girl Maisie, stranded in West Africa, stows away on a steamer heading for the jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
At home, in the evenings, her father stows their shoes in the same cubby, hangs their coats on the same hooks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Lithium batteries must be stowed in carry-on baggage only, the US regulator says.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He stowed away on a ship to reach the Pacific Coast but was thrown off and forced to cross the Isthmus of Panama by foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The yellow fever virus, also indigenous to Africa, must have stowed away too.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
When customer orders come in, robots pick merchandise out of a grid system where goods are stowed, and bring the items to workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Helene peers at my blurred tracks, following them, somehow, to the crypt where I stowed my pack, to the skulls piled there.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have been stowing gear and preparing the Lockheed Martin-developed Orion capsule for the descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Resources are also being used to try to prevent migrants stowing away on cross-channel freight.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
By day, they collected healthy spruce tree leaves and fresh mosses and lichens from the ground, stowing their scientific treasure in zip-close bags as they went.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
After the Eurotunnel connecting France and England under the Channel opened in 1994, refugees and migrants congregated near the French end in hopes of stowing away on vehicles.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Mo was stowing Dustfinger's bags in the back of the van.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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