cage

• On the far side of her cage was an inattentive ape-man, tossing his oil-ball about. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
• The back of this cage was a wall of thick steel, pierced by a heavy metal door fitted with combination locks--the ship's safe Passengers milled about in front of the purser's cage, checking valuables and transacting other business. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
• Their restless milling about the enclosure had ceased; now, as if somehow divining what the Amity and Scapa Flow had in mind, they were pressed abnormally close together around the spot where, if all went well, a section of their cage was about to be vaporized. —  Warhorse
• The messmate of the whistling fireman slyly opens the cage, the whistler pipes up a cunning note, the chicken creeps out, the cage is once more fastened, and the miscreant who opened and closed it darts below to join his fellow criminal. —  AdventureTales#1
• Some were not, and they were ordinary sparrows The white birds were on the left side, and that side bore a sign WARNING--TREATED Lying on top of the cage was a case, an ordinary flat leatherette-covered case of the type which could be purchased in any drugstore before the war. —  126 - The Mental Monster

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context

Word Family