crate

Example Sentences

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It arrived aboard a specially chartered plane but was not removed from its large wooden crate marked "fragile".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Video showed customs officers prying open a crate to find the rock, its surface grey and rugged.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

In 2008, Claude was loaded into a wooden crate and trucked across the country to San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

After about 10 minutes — and a repositioning of the crate — Naomi entered.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Frankie retrieved the medical kit from amid the scatter of jars and tincture bottles piled on an overturned apple crate in the corner.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros