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Sentence Examples We also came back with a car-load of various size chipboard planks, a few wood crates, metal shelving and assorted wood offcuts. Boys carted crates of water in and others hauled workable furniture out on tractors. As summer arrived, so did the big wooden crates bringing wonderful dolls, mechanical toys, pedal cars, tricycles, scooters, dolls' prams. The Aussies were frantically unpacking their crates of beer, and in no time all of them had tinnies glued to their lips. We all sat in the back of the van on paint cans and crates and toolboxes and headed north. The basic training tools will be a collar, leash, chew toys and bones, gates, crates, and a bed. The torpedoes remained in their crates and were never used as there was no torpedo boat! Apparently one bold townsman had swum out to push the remaining crates together. A number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass. Most veal comes from animals that have been artificially orphaned, kept in crates or pens, and have been fed on a diet based on milk powder. The site comes complete with the requisite plastic sheeting, broken glass, tables made from crates, dirty mattresses and broken bicycles. They had set up makeshift cover using old metal crates and some aged and rusted sheet metal. Well, first we did some illegal bill postering and then we stole some milk crates. There are crates filled with trinkets and mementos that have yet to be sorted, placed or stuffed in the attic. Unmarked crates, heavy machinery, and piles upon piles of empty skids filled the most of it. She prepared herself, skulking silently behind several crates, the door opened seconds later. Workmen at the docks were unloading the crates from the tugboats and cruises. We had a home made wooden sledge and we took the crates and put it on the sledge and took them round to the houses near where we lived. You saw crates of certain sizes, and then you would do your sums and then do your deductions from that. The insects hitch rides across oceans in wooden crates and other solid wood materials used in shipping, he explains. Show More Sentences Instead of the usual colored crates that advertise the brewers' wares, the architects specified white translucent plastic. At last there's more to Calais than sozzled British daytrippers lugging around crates of cheap plonk. On a date certain, mass confinement, sow gestation crates, veal crates, battery cages, and all such innovations would be prohibited. Their calves are taken away shortly after birth, many of whom are then condemned to veal crates. Open crates and various strange pieces of equipment seemed to occupy every spare bit of space. He dived down a dark alley and ducked down behind a pile of crates and noisome garbage to catch his breath. Its building blocks are black plastic milk crates, and it is topped with a sheet of corrugated red metal. In New York, 7,000 trees have been cut down, thanks to an infestation of Asian long-horn beetles brought here in wood crates from China. Fox ambled away and, returning ten minutes later, found the two merchants loading nondescript crates onto their shuttle. Costumes spilled out of crates and both men and women wore masks of make-up. I climbed up a stack of old crates arranged haphazardly behind the warehouse. Vincent moved silently into a deep shadow on the other side of the room, going behind a stack of crates piled in the middle of the floor. Some of the crates were the size of small starships, one or two possibly containing a vehicle for travel in the vacuum of space. We can hear footsteps above and the scraping sounds of our crates and cases being dragged across the floorboards. Beer and milk may be sold in crates but, contrary to popular usage, wine is sold in cases. Metal crates and plates littered the floor, and even the main desk had been outfitted with armor. After an aluminum pallet holds 12 stacked crates, the computer opens a gate allowing the pallet to move forward for further loading. The crates are fitted with parachutes and dropped from airplanes into Afghanistan. In the spring of 1927 he headed off to Germany along with crates of paintings, pedagogic materials, and numerous unpublished manuscripts. They emerged in the dusty, cobwebbed cellar full of old crates and barrels. Show More Sentences Farther into the alley, there was a pile of crates with a boy perched on top. All along one side of the kitchen were crates full of oranges, bread, butter, and other perishables. The tote bags and collapsible crates can be stored flat and take up minimal space when they are not being used. My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades. At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden crates. Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys. Flea markets, and summer produce stands are great places to shop for previously used wooden crates. I walked a bit further, climbing over old wooden crates and soaked cardboard boxes. The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin. We would often finish a night there with a group of ten or so of us heading to my place laden with bottles of wine and crates of beer. As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the crates stored in the back room. The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles. It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries. Nowadays it is common for the World of Wines to sell crates containing 12 bottles of wine. Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students. The British fortlets were very simple affairs made from earth thrown up, sand bags and crates. He shouted, kicking around the crates in a blind fury, rage coursing through his already angered veins. Their establishment is a rather simple affair, consisting of one stool, two crates, a Primus stove, three huge pots and numerous plates. They all glided with ease through the area stacked with crates and found a door. I leaned on the railing and watched teams of dockhands transferring crates to the waiting wagons. Show More Sentences Around him, horse-drawn wagons rumbled by, loaded with sacks of flour or crates of dried meat. The use of harvesters and plastic crates has become essential to minimise wastage during harvesting and transportation. Other counties seem to have got their act together and provide each household with plastic crates. The building itself was made out of wood, and contained several rusted metal barrels and crates. It is common practice to find wheelbarrows loaded with full crates of beer being trundled over the highway at this point. We wander into the winery next door to the studio, with its gleaming silver vats and stacked wooden crates of bottles ready for dispatch. Even the process of labelling crates and early allocation of storage space can help. Nine of the ten pilots were sitting around on crates or boxes, talking to each other, shooting glares and dirty looks at the remaining one. I turned and ran straight into a roundhouse right that drove me into the stack of crates, toppling it. Parts of that department were now laid out in crates on the car deck, lots to be sold off in the auction. Then she began to make out dim shapes that in a few moments revealed themselves to be crates, tackle, ropes, barrels, and hooks. Everywhere she looked were piles of books, tarps covering crates and furniture, old chests, and a conglomeration of junk and useful items. The soldiers satisfied themselves that there were no more of the enemy around, and sat down behind the crates. The leaflet gives information about safety harnesses, pet carriers, dog guards and travel cages or crates. You'll find wood storage shelves and crates in pine, oak, redwood, and a variety of other woods, or you can have a wood shop custom make whatever you need. The porch was full of crates of beer bottles and bags of rubbish. Mostly I have seen them packed into crates five deep and obviously dying. Traders were bringing in crates of imported goods from across the seas while fishmongers and townsfolk sold their own homemade wares in shops and stalls. By the time he was fourteen he was a full fledged docker staggering under the crates his boyish frame hauled from the ships unloading at Algeciras. North West SPCA are looking for old dog kennels, tea chests, or crates. Show More Sentences I've been sawing and hammering away at that wood we rescued from behind the mall, and made a couple of lovely rough crates for my home-made goodies to go into. On 18 May, spitz led Moore to Prien, where they located a large collection of trunks and crates belonging to Schwend. Pallets of chicken crates were lifted up onto a conveyor which delivered the chickens to the two hangers, who unloaded the crates two-at-a-time by hand. The chunky boy asked with a loud bark of a laugh before he shoved Sammy's shoulder hard enough that she stumbled back a step and further into the crates. Every so often a bar person would bring out crates of bottles of beer, and put them in this huge tub thing full of iced water, and folk would just dip into it for booze. He developed cardboard refrigerator boxes with three-ply walls to safely and accurately deliver rations to refugees without using heavy crates or parachutes. After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man. Units exported or imported were reported only in pounds, gallons, bales, bushels, short tons, dozens, bags, crates and bunches, etc., depending on the commodity. The plastic crates, tagged so everyone would know that these are the fish from the Elizabeth, are forklifted into the cavernous refrigerated storeroom of the Exchange. His cart was stacked three deep with myriad wooden crates and boxes. Once the moulds were made, the task of shipping them back, each piece carefully wrapped and packed in wooden crates, was an even more difficult and expensive business. Trucks loaded with illegal liquor pulled through the gates, met by laborers who spent hours hauling crates of Scotch, bourbon, rum, and Benedictine into the building. For example, Great Britain has banned veal crates and limits to fifteen hours the amount of time animals can go without food and water during transport. It had crates piled against it on the inside to serve as sentry stands, and makeshift crenellations atop for better protection of the archers that stood watch. When the plane landed back at Heathrow, one of the six crates was found to be missing, and during unloading, a large cardboard box was dropped and the lid fell off. Shipping crates need to meet specifications to pass the muster. He is also heading up an effort in a campaign in Arizona to ban the confinement of calves in veal grates and breeding pigs in small gestative crates. The produce inspector rejected several crates of berries that had begun to grow mold. When exhibitions travel, casework and graphics get shipped from venue to venue in heavy crates. We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal. Show More Sentences Some locals believe that the nation-wide company is using the building as a warehouse with some people witnessing large crates being brought in and out of the premises. He quietly gathered a few bolts and washers from the floor and threw them to the other end of a row of crates, causing a loud sound to come from that direction. It was lined with the backsides of an assortment of brick buildings and had wooden crates of varying sizes stacked at random intervals next to each one. Just feet away, in a well-organized but congested bedroom, crates and terrariums and other enclosures stack from floor to ceiling. In one of the last desperate acts of World War II, the SS dumped crates full of counterfeit money into nearby Lake Toplitz. On the way they were forced to step over several supply crates, moved to create extra accommodation spaces, which had been lashed to the deck and covered with floorboards. Vendors offered services such as knife sharpening, cigarette lighter repair, and bike inner-tube patching from makeshift, cloth-covered wooden crates. It consists of a display of empty wood frames, piles of crates, rolls of canvas covered with brown pigment and charred-looking objects in wooden and cardboard boxes. However, when pigs are farrowed in crates and the sow's excrement is passed directly into a pit, the pigs may not receive an adequate supply of iron from this source. The device was scuttling over the crates in the cargo bay, making a few routine diagnostic checks, when its sensors picked up some anomalous readings. Ask most people what soundproofing is and they'll describe foam tiles, egg crates, or other treatments on the walls. We may have outlawed ghastly foie gras, veal crates and the like, but we are not averse to sending livestock abroad to endure the torture. Veal crates may be used and even if they are kept in groups, most will be housed on concrete slabs without any bedding material. From cute baby dinos to teeth gnashing predators, the zookeepers have got their work cut out containing all the fierce creatures in their crates. As you can see from the test reports, in the lower frequency ranges in particular, egg crates offer little value for absorption. This suite left a lasting impression on me due to the egg crates on the beds. The machine can palletise crates and cases at the rate of up to 30 per minute dependent on application. Just a week ago, Wal-Mart called on suppliers to stop keeping calves in veal crates and hogs in gestation crates. We were able to find some foam egg crates that would make her a bit more comfortable. Colorado recently passed a law to phase out veal crates and pig gestation crates. Show More Sentences Happily this situation can be helped to a great extent by the use of grids called egg crates, which prevent the light from spreading too broadly. Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters. She smiles toothily in front of rustic wooden crates piled with zucchini. Much like teachers are sometimes described as working in their separate little egg crates, school administrators can also be very isolated from one another. Typically, egg crates are covered with waterproof pads and then sheets. Buying four crates on site would cost a person the same price as a ticket. At American tracks greyhounds are kept in kennel compounds, in crates that are approximately three feet wide, four feet deep, and three feet high. His sister Hermine said that Wittgenstein working as an elementary teacher was like using a precision instrument to open crates, but the family decided not to interfere. Wooden crates used to ship tea make great cachepots for large plants. As such, it is used for paper making, packing crates, and construction. A former Chesapeake Bay crabber who easily tossed around 100-pound, ice-laden crates of crustaceans in his youth, Kirk Bloodsworth remains a formidable physical presence. The projects themselves range from benches, crates, ammunition boxes, and a folding camp table, to a bucksaw, folding camp stool, and an officer's field desk. Place the plaque of conical molds, pointed side down, onto clean, empty, cardboard egg crates to support the molds so that they stand perfectly vertical. Examples from Classical Literature And there was a freight car full of crates and boxes and land knows what all. Then we watch the guayule being pitched by hand into crates and tightly jammed therein by being jumped on by the packers. Back there, among the shelves of milk crates stuffed with T-shirts and cruft, he had a thought. Men and robots were stacking crates and he asked one of the men for Krannon. More barrels, boxes, crates and bags to be piled high up on the waterfront. In the hold, Kerk and Meta had opened some of the crates and were chortling with joy over their lethal contents. An apple box had fallen against a wheel, and the crates of pails looked as if they had been spilled aboard. We got out of the gharry and clambered into dwellings airy like packing crates, or descended into places sinister like cellars. Sow stalls for dry sow and farrowing crates for lactating sows have been used for about the last 40 years in Taiwan. Waitrose has become the first major UK retailer to stop using farrowing crates in the production of all its own-label pork products. He was soon freeing himself from leg irons, strait-jackets, packing crates, milk cans and even the toughest dungeons at Scotland Yard. True, the crates weren't huge, but each was a hefty load for two men. Along the sides of the room were a drop-leaf table, sewing machine cabinet, chairs, apple crates to store miscellaneous items, and a chiffonier. Another man was crossing the court, crates of chickens on his tump line. That dragon is going to get himself into trouble fetching these old crates out of the hospital the way they are, unless he has got a permit. Half a dozen greyhounds were crammed into larger crates that were anything save large enough. Find more words! 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