cage
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Large said the red cage fungus also had another notable characteristic.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
"These are wild animals, they don't belong in a cage."
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Only 31, he does not do it by out-toughing the cage.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Said football coach David Avramovich: “It’s very common for them playing long toss or being in the cage once or twice a week. They’re walking by with their bats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"First Prize for Yellowest Pet," Anastasia read, leaning over a canary cage.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Dr Sim says the dog is always right when pointing out a sea squirt, which can be difficult to spot, looking like slime among seaweed and on structures like pontoons and oyster cages.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Only that there were cages on both sides.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Detainees at the now-shuttered immigration facility in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" were held at times in metal cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Genetic evidence suggests the wild oysters are their offspring—spawn that slipped the cages and grew free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
TIP FOURTEEN: Hamsters should be let out of their cages to run in a closed environment for an hour or two at a time.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
The boy holds a caged bird; the girl, a fish tank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Herzog impresses this notion from the very beginning: A dream shared by Joan and Jean, in which the sisters stand in a corridor flanked by caged birds.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
We passed a caged dog and saw a puppy on a short leash being loaded into a vehicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Her caged parakeet in the upper corner stares back at us, acknowledging our voyeurism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Cersei paced her cell, restless as the caged lions that had lived in the bowels of easterly Rock when she was a girl, a legacy of her grandfather’s time.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"This generation didn't even have enough to eat growing up. Now with a little money, they have inherited the habit and custom of caging birds," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Ben Williamson, who works for PeTA, says that the new box shows that people today no longer accept “the chaining and caging of wild animals.”
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 23, 2024
Those include caging seedlings to protect them from hungry animals, which increases their survival odds almost five-fold, according to Erin Knight, a biological science technician at the preserve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
One tomb, part of a substantial cemetery surrounding a monastery to the west of Xylotymbou village was being used for caging cats.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Daylight came in x-patterns through the caging at the windows.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
