pallet

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The company reuses the pallets used to transport goods.

I had never thought about the day Shawn had fallen from the pallet.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

My primary duty was to lift the floor tile onto a shipping pallet and prepare that pallet for departure.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

The Sixers had erected a large armored bunker behind Castle Anorak, filled with pallets of weapons and battle gear that had been teleported in by the Sixers before they activated their shield.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

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.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

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.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

It had only been a few months since his fall from the pallet, and his body couldn't take the wear.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The bomb bay doors parted and pallets poured out, swinging under red, white, and blue parachutes.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

My primary duty was to lift the floor tile onto a shipping pallet and prepare that pallet for departure.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

In an unassuming storeroom filled with dropcloths and pallets and crates, behind a sheet of plywood, the mineralogist reveals a simple combination safe that the assistant director opens rather easily.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

WELL, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she'd give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which was a little bigger, and she would turn into the room with her sisters and sleep on a cot; and up garret was a little cubby, with a pallet in it.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

Things were looking decidedly more industrial in this direction: wooden pallets, a flatbed pushcart, a sense of crated objects being moved and stored.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Shawn was standing on a wooden pallet, twenty feet in the air.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

One of her jobs was to air out the slaves' pallets.

A woman named Tessa who lived down the street from us rolls out a pallet.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Finally, I made my way to my pallet in the attic, and lay down wearily.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979

Seivarden lay too quiet on her pallet—surely she had heard the sound as well.  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

The family sleeps on pallets, and she sprays a ring of bug repellent on the floor each night to keep away the cockroaches.  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012

I unroll a horsehair pallet and place a thin yellowed pillow at the top.  (source) Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train, 2013

It was hot there, and empty except for the pallets and my bag in its corner.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979

Inside, it's just wide enough to fit a rope pallet and a crate that serves as a side table.  (source) Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes, 2015

I walked slowly down a corridor lined with corrective-swathed injured lying on hastily made pallets, or encased in pods that would hold them suspended until the medics could get to them.  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

If you won't go to your bed, make a pallet there on the floor.  (source) Nora Roberts, Dark Witch, 2013

Their pallets are on the ground.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979

I remembered seeing him lounging next to the pallet when Chuck and I were unloading it.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

A lot of rag pallets on the floor.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979