How to use crate in a sentence

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• Among the arrests is a man charged with possession of stolen goods, to wit: 50 beer crates.From the entry to wit
• We'll have to pay the stowage if we want our crate back.From the entry stowage
• The crate contains six 12-btl cases of red wine and eight 24-packs of beer.From the entry btl
• I hurt my back lifting those crates.From the entry back
• Can you get the door? I'm carrying these heavy crates.From the entry get the door
• The crate of supplies soft-landed in the drop zone under its parachute, allowing the soldiers to replenish their food and ammo for the next few days of fighting.From the entry soft-land
• I was lucky enough to get six free crates of beans every week.2013, Simon Mitchell, The Great Stinkathlon. From the entry silent-but-violent
• Typically, egg crates are covered with waterproof pads and then sheets.2012, Seth B. Goldsmith, Understanding Health Care Management, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry egg crate
• We were able to find some foam egg crates that would make her a bit more comfortable.2012, Joshua Bonilla, Samantha Ondyak, Olivia Smith, Sky of Dust: The Last Weapon, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry egg crate
• The covered cardboard boxes held and the packings in the crates suffered no further crudding.2011, Henry Z. Kister, Distillation Troubleshooting, page 203. From the entry crud
• The seat can be padded with egg crating or 1-inch foam.2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sandra E Juul, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, →ISBN. From the entry egg crating
• Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel. From the entry pen
• I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (science fiction), Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, P.C., scene: Eden Prime. From the entry forty winks
• These crates were constructed to unload the wood with a pullstring.2004, Debra Porter, Lucid Dream: A Healing Allegory, page 36. From the entry pullstring
• Our audience tends to be what I would call ‘crate diggers’—people who like digging for new stuff.2001 November 3, Brian Garrity, quoting Derrick Oien, “MP3.com Recasts Itself as Tech Outfit, Promo Vehicle”, in Timothy White, editor…. From the entry cratedigger
• From the crate beneath him, Reed fished up a can of aerated mineral water.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
• The crates were manufactured from mango and uriam logs which were stored partially submerged in ponds.1964, David Tom Knuth, Bacteria Associated with Wood Products and Their Effects on Certain Chemical and Physical Properties of Wood. From the entry uriam
• Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back.1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War). From the entry shufti
• Another crate control is needed to allow the correct entry of the empty crate into the recrater.1959, Milk Industry, volume 44, page 44. From the entry recrater
• Here, lift over them crates o' oranges I wanter fix 'em in the winder."1925, Amy Lowell, Men, Women and Ghosts. From the entry wanter
• One side of the wall had the foam egg crating attached with room for a small person to crawl inside.2016, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, This House, →ISBN. From the entry egg crating
• The cargo bay contained a number of large crates, woven shamboo strips on a framework of larger stems.2010 April 27, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, volume 1, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry shamboo
• I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.2004 April, Smithsonian, page 92. From the entry geoduck
• The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now.1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing,, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry true
• As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true.1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing,, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry true
• Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.1988, Edmund White, chapter 9, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994. From the entry shucker
• Over in a corner of the building, amid the packing crates and pallets, the snack bar is doing a land-office business.1982 May 25, Paul D. Lehrman, “Advent and departure: A day at the auction”, in Richard M. Gaines, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume XI…. From the entry snickers
• He saw where the beer was, crated duodenes of it stacked between counter and wall, and went to help himself.1963, Anthony Burgess, Honey for the Bears, Norton, published 1996, page 86. From the entry duodene
• The Negro youths make skatemobiles from rollerskates and crates.1962, Jet, volume 22, number 5, page 57. From the entry skatemobile
• The pole was greased and men tried to walk out to the end of it and dislodge the crate.1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry greaser
• Then with her curved hand knife, she proceeded to clean the selected sprouts, flipping them backhanded into the top crate on her left when done.2010, Ivano Franco Comelli, La Nostra Costa (Our Coast): A Family's Journey to and from the North Coast of Santa Cruz, California…. From the entry backhanded
• A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more.2006, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss, page 20. From the entry billy cart
• Well, of course it was not a corkindrill, although a genuine corkindrill (another of Irene's finds) had shared its crate for approximately fifteen years.2000, Nancy Kilpatrick, Thomas Roche, Graven images, page 119. From the entry corkindrill
• There were the crates full of dangerous, coal-fired machines—an automatic clothes-washing machine, a cherry-pitter, and other devices whose nature I couldn’t even guess at.2000 January, Cory Doctorow, “A Place So Foreign”, in Scott Edelman, editor, Science Fiction Age, volume 8, number 2, Reston, Va.…. From the entry cherry-pitter
• An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.1991, Bob Gordon, Orchid Seedling Care: With Special Emphasis on Water Quality. From the entry windowsill
• Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).2013, Eugene L. Magad, Total Materials Management, →ISBN, page 375. From the entry packing
• Delivery carts piled high with furniture, hay and crates negotiated their way between the fly-pitch barrows selling the early catch from Billingsgate market half a mile away.2012, Jean Fullerton, Hold on to Hope, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry fly-pitch
• Two of our kitter buddies are the same color as the bunbun and have all three think the bunnie is just fascinating while in his crate.1996 September 13, rlaatsch, “Kitters and Bunnie??”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022. From the entry kitter

Meaning of crate

1. noun A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
2. noun A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
3. noun In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.

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Questions about crate in a sentence

How do you use crate in a sentence?

Crate is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Among the arrests is a man charged with possession of stolen goods, to wit: 50 beer crates.”

What is a short sentence with crate?

“I hurt my back lifting those crates.”

What does crate mean?

Crate means a large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.