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
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
Wildlife Officer Cameron Blechert went to the reported location and saw the deer in a dog crate outside a house, according to the news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Then she grabbed the dog crate out of the back of her truck and threw another handful inside.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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
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
Meanwhile during the search of the SNP headquarters, officers were seen carrying green crates and other equipment.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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
“My parents crammed most of their now-forbidden books into two huge crates and buried them at night in our garden,” said Ilse Koehn.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
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
DOG TENTS: If your four-legged gift recipient isn’t crated, perhaps a dog tent would offer comfort.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
He looked at which paintings were being crated and realized each had an identification label with a red dot.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
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
The Lincolns see crating as a “quick fix” for problem behavior.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2015
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
