Nowadays automatic weather stations, which reduce labor costs, are becoming more common; they protect the thermometer by a number of white plastic cones.

I got out, retrieved the orange plastic cones, and returned them to my car - this by way of being prepared for whatever might come next.

They dangled from suspended ladders, raced around orange plastic cones and stretched their arms with the aid of elastic bands.

People are being urged to bury large plastic cones in their gardens and then fill them with waste.

One example is a truncated plastic cone in which a seedling is planted.

At one point, a young boy came out holding a remote control, which he aimed at a model in a pale plastic cone of a dress.

In forestry, a skid cone is a hollow steel or plastic cone placed over the sawn end of a log.

Translucent colored plastic cones slipped over the lens of a flashlight increase the visibility when looking at the side of the light.

Their solid air freshener, however, was packaged in an attractive extruded plastic cone.

Or . . . wouldn't the plastic cone be more tolerable if it were just smaller?