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a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on itMore rarely, pallet can refer to a tool or part of a machine. It may also be found as a less common spelling for palette—a flat board or tray artists use to mix paints and to hold them as they paint.
- The warehouse permits stacking three pallets high.
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
- The company insists on reusing the pallets used to transport goods.
- The bomb bay doors parted and pallets poured out, swinging under red, white, and blue parachutes.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Mother says Shawn was not standing on a pallet, only on forklift tines.Tara Westover -- Educated
- August and Zach had already extracted most of the honey from her bee yards, but there were still several stacks of supers on pallets sitting around.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The pallets didn't stop falling.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- I hopped onto the pallet and Shawn dropped the boom to the ground.Tara Westover -- Educated
- He'd lost too much of his mind when he'd fallen off that pallet.Tara Westover -- Educated
- I had never thought about the day Shawn had fallen from the pallet.Tara Westover -- Educated
- It had only been a few months since his fall from the pallet, and his body couldn't take the wear.Tara Westover -- Educated
- In the reality she constructed for herself nothing had been wrong before her brother fell off that pallet.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Shawn was standing on a wooden pallet, twenty feet in the air.Tara Westover -- Educated
- I don't know for certain what Shawn was doing on the pallet, but he was probably fitting posts or welding, because that was the kind of work he did.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Luke remembers the pallet, but substitutes a metal drain, with the grating removed, in place of the rebar.Tara Westover -- Educated
- He'd been using a forklift and pallet for twenty years.Tara Westover -- Educated
- "We can't keep using a forklift and an old cheese pallet," Shawn said.Tara Westover -- Educated
- It wasn't until September 2 that B-29s finally flew over Rokuroshi, their pallets hitting the rice paddies with such force that the men had to dig them out.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Because he believed himself right, and he kept on believing himself right—after the first car crash, after the second, after the bin, the fire, the pallet.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Dad thought he was ready to work and told him to climb onto the pallet, and Shawn, who never liked being told what to do, started screaming at Dad about everything—the equipment, the granary designs, his pay.Tara Westover -- Educated
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallets = portable platforms for storing or moving goods that are stacked on them
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet = a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
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