stow
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The push-button design means owners won’t have to remove and stow the roof panels manually, like in the old days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
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
The gift suggestions here all have two things in common: They’re small enough to stow in a stocking, and they give off serious big California energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Flights do not include "trolley bags" to stow in overhead compartments or checked baggage.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
He’d gotten the idea for the picture from his last trip with his father to San Francisco, when he’d been busted trying to stow away on a plane to Peshawar.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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
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
An Italian war orphan stows away on a troop ship bound for New York, where he finds his GI buddy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
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
The yellow fever virus, also indigenous to Africa, must have stowed away too.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The boat was also short of lifebelts and buoyancy apparatus was stowed away.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
For now, Atwood’s replacement Oscars are safely stowed away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Tchiroma, stowed away in his residence since Monday, said Friday that part of the army was protecting him and called for public support through a "ghost towns" strategy from Monday to Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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
The firm has benefited from stowing away profits since the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and doesn’t rely as heavily on debt to fund its trades as some rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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
Then he went back to stowing the suitcases into the car.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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