stow
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The bigger challenge is to stow away enough fuel for next winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Yet Trương doesn’t solely focus on these two young lovers, nor on Nam’s specific plan to stow himself away for good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
She arranges for Paddington to stow away on a cargo ship to England and tells him to write to her at the Home for Retired Bears.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
Flights do not include "trolley bags" to stow in overhead compartments or checked baggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
The next step is to gather up the solar cells I laid out the day before and stow them on the rover and trailer.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
She stows a small knitted figurine of legendary England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, made for her by a friend's grandmother when Aldcroft was a teenager, in her kit bag for every game.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
A number of guest rooms also have flexible sleeping setups, like a queen bed that stows into the wall, and a bunk bed with a lower queen bed and an upper twin bed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
“No easy solution. Deployable wiper that stows in front trunk would be ideal, but complex.”
From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2021
Tyler Hamilton, 24, started as one of the workers who scans items as they come into the warehouse and stows them on the shelves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
At home, in the evenings, her father stows their shoes in the same cubby, hangs their coats on the same hooks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“Hell yeah need to bust all our history out that’s been stowed away,” one said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Naturally, it was stowed away in a high-limit room.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
A commercial passenger flight operated by Air China was safely diverted to Shanghai on Saturday after a battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage caught fire, the airline said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
They stowed away most of their jewelry into a safe just after 2 p.m., according to relatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
Once Victor had managed to fish the pedigreed cat out of a barrel full of stinking sardines and stowed her in a scratch-safe box, he had discovered the two tortoises.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have been stowing gear and preparing the Lockheed Martin-developed Orion capsule for the descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Resources are also being used to try to prevent migrants stowing away on cross-channel freight.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
By day, they collected healthy spruce tree leaves and fresh mosses and lichens from the ground, stowing their scientific treasure in zip-close bags as they went.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
If a few passengers dawdle while stowing their bag and finding their seat, it can make the difference between a flight being on time or late in the government’s official statistics.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” said Harry, stowing the little bottle hastily in his pocket.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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