crate
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An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
These crate paintings lay groundwork for Gottlieb’s pictograph series, which would become a signature for him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
She was loaded into a crate with a blanket and brought to the center for initial care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Two practice journeys with a textile copy were previously made, to test the route and the crate.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But George kept working on the rope, trying now to break it away from the crate.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
A community garden has replaced a drug market, a library stands where an unofficial dumping ground once accumulated milk crates, and formerly deserted blocks now have families moving in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
The back rooms of the La Brea Tar Pits are, at the moment, a maze of packing crates tagged with handwritten sticky notes that say things like “bison skulls” or “camel hip.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
At the end of an alley, when my route was cut off by a heap of crates and half-rotten lumber, I climbed a ladder to the roof.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
In 1988 she reported that she owned 12,000 dolls and 2,500 teddy bears which were boxed and crated in a 27,000-square-foot warehouse.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
If your dog is used to being crated, have them go in their crate, Howe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
The boys conducted Abra through the house—opened closets to show wash basins and toilets and chandeliers, still crated and waiting to be installed.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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 cost ranges from $10 to $300, but for “white-glove” shipping — which includes packing, crating, insuring and cleanup after delivery — it can top $1,000.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 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
