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
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
Duuzuu moved to my lap, and Quinby watched from the crate she’d nearly outgrown.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Cortizo and I were surrounded by towers of crates as we spoke, at the end of the longest freight rail link in the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
On a Saturday in late September 2025, the 40-year-old mother of four was loading crates of grapes onto a forklift in a Fresno County field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
For the 25,000th, someone made a throne of beer crates and sat on it, pint in hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
We took a lot of long walks to help deal with the stress of the not knowing, but the magic panacea for me came the day Steve’s Harley-Davidson arrived in one of the crates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the stone cellar we uncover blankets, crates of champagne, tins of French pâté, and a folder of glossy photographs of a woman called Gloria Swanson.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Without being asked, he’d get the chickens crated up to ship to Atlanta, and the cars washed, and I don’t know what all.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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
One theory holds that reducing stimuli at night might work, but she wasn’t sold on the idea of crating him in the dark for hours.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
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
