Noun the dogs and cats at the animal shelter looked so sad in their cages Verb caged the rabbit at night so she wouldn't wake everyone up

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Allowing Rodgers ample time to pick apart an inexperienced secondary is like throwing a porterhouse into a tiger's cage. Star Tribune, "Vikings defense gets failing grade in opener," 13 Sep. 2020

The bubble, for many players, had come to feel like a gilded cage. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, "Is the N.B.A. Still LeBron James’s League?," 4 Sep. 2020

Soon, the fence had turned into a cage, and at times the feds were trapped in a cloud of their own gas. Sarah Jeong, The New Republic, "The Battle of Portland," 3 Sep. 2020

Vradenburg slowed the boat so Brady could reach down and snatch the bird, and then place it in a large plastic cage. Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, "Avian botulism kills 40,000 birds, threatens millions more in Klamath Refuge," 1 Sep. 2020

The company is planning to escape Toyota's gilded cage for more adventurous flights by the end of the year, with the goal of sending air taxis flitting around Tokyo by 2023. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, "Japanese Flying Taxi Completes Manned Test Flight," 31 Aug. 2020

Reyes said Paulino's SUV has bars on the windows, has a cage that separates the back seat from the front seat and has doors that lock and can only be opened from the outside. Jennifer Henderson, CNN, "Miami police officer's wife dies after she gets trapped for hours in the back of his work vehicle," 26 Aug. 2020

Previous studies which looked at how infections spread from one animal to another in a nearby cage had also found this. Popular Science, "Tiny dust particles could help spread viruses like the flu," 18 Aug. 2020

So now the parents are rattling the cage of the Big Ten. Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, "The Big Ten’s decision to cancel fall football, and the multiple sides to the story," 16 Aug. 2020

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

Mary Lynn Parker of Tiger Haven told Knox News her shelter has been helping with the search and that a trap has been set in an attempt to cage the feline. Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, "Tiger search underway after sighting in Tennessee industrial park," 10 Sep. 2020

Somehow—possibly inside Wuhan’s Hua’nan live animal market—a bat’s urine or saliva passed to some other caged beast, infecting that animal. Laurie Garrett, The New Republic, "How Trump and Xi set the stage for the coronavirus pandemic," 2 Apr. 2020

Only my annual, heartbreaking attempt to cage my berries from the birds vexes me more. Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, "It’s Time to Grow Your Own Beans," 24 Apr. 2020

No individuals or families should continue to be caged as the pandemic spreads. Alina Das, Quartz, "Why ICE’s coronavirus response is so dangerous," 25 Mar. 2020

In some instances, the actual algorithms used to determine who is free and who is caged are proprietary, and defendants have no way to access or challenge the black box computations that determine their fate. Nick Pinto, The New Republic, "Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail.," 6 Apr. 2020

The dog jumped into the seat after the officer tried to coax him into the back of the vehicle, which was caged. Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, "How a stray dog got the best of a Texas police officer (and ate his beef jerky, too)," 16 June 2019

Both farmed and caged wild animals create the perfect breeding ground for zoonotic diseases. Liz Specht, Wired, "Modernizing Meat Production Will Help Us Avoid Pandemics," 13 Mar. 2020

According to Gizmodo’s George Dvorsky, Alba, a Bornean orangutan, was rescued in 2017 after being captured and caged by villagers in the Indonesian portion of Borneo. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Only Known Albino Orangutan Is Doing Great After Her Release to the Wild," 5 Mar. 2020

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