144 examples of crates in sentences

Crates were piled up to the ceiling, clerks with notebooks in their hands passed continually back and forth.

" CHAPTER XXXII Norgate pushed his way through a confused medley of crates which had just been unloaded and made his way up the warehouse to Selingman's office.

Close by a yard piled up with crates and barrels of second-hand bottles, was a large brick warehouse devoted to the purchase and sale of broken glass.

At the same time they work mines, and move the crates and vineae to the source of the fountain.

If you don't mind I'll drop ashore while you're having the crates brought on deck and make inquiries.

It is true (he admits) that Crates, a celebrated cynic, was married, but it was to a lady as self-denying as himself, and to one who had given up wealth and friends to share hardship and poverty with him.

And, if Epictetus does not venture to say in so many words that Crates in this matter made a mistake, he takes pains to point out that the circumstances were far too exceptional to be accepted as a precedent for the imitation of others.

Suddenly there was a rush for the trunks and boxes and crates, and, almost before the Lady Agnes could catch the breath she had lost, the whole troupe was hurrying up the narrow street, luggage and all.

I woke up before anyone else and noticed these crates.

"Let the men take the crates apart and see what we've got here.

Mark reached into one of the crates and took out one of the items that looked like a large cracker.

About one-sixth of all the lumber that is cut in the United States is used in making crates and packing boxes.

During a recent year, the railroads paid out more than $100,000,000 to shippers who lost goods in transit due to boxes and crates that were damaged in shipment.

In order to find out what woods are best to use in crates and boxes and what sizes and shapes will withstand rough handling, the Laboratory experts developed a novel drum that tosses the boxes to and fro and gives them the same kind of rough handling they get on the railroad.

She stumbled back across the platform, avoiding other groups who had cheered the passing train, and found sanctuary by a baggage truck loaded with crates of live chickens.

Hundreds of eyes were fixed on the sea, scrutinizing the surface of the waves, believing every object which they saw,bits of wood, seaweed or crates floating on the surface of the water,to be the top of a periscope.

He stopped in the shadows, close to a pile of crates and saw some men advancing in his direction, passing rapidly over the edge of the red spot made by the electric bulbs, so as not to be under the rain of light.

Crates was the first Athenian that adopted it, and forsook the practice of gross raillery that prevailed before."

Crates flourished in the 82nd Olympiad, 450 years before our aera, twelve or thirteen years before Aristophanes.

The elder boys drove the cattle, which usually headed the caravan; while the younger children were packed in crates of hickory withes and slung across the backs of the old quiet horses, or else were seated safely between the great rolls of bedding that were carried in similar fashion.

CRATES, a Greek cynic philosopher, disciple of Diogenes; 4th century B.C. CRATINUS, a Greek comic poet, born at Athens; limited the actors in a piece to three, and the first to introduce into the drama attacks on public men, wrote also satires on vice (519-424 B.C.).

He gathered together enough hardwood, three-inch crate slats to make twelve crates, and he worked for three nights, making them.

After that he worked for three days, with all the men in Patmos to help him, getting the goats into the crates and loaded on the truck.

Then he drove over to the station and asked for tags, and addressed the crates to J. Paul Smith, Vista Grande Rancho, San Jose, Calif.

There were the heads of the six families, and all the children who were of walking age, grouped around the crates and Casey expectantly.

144 examples of  crates  in sentences