carrying

Example Sentences

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Carrying credit-card debt remains historically expensive; APRs have been north of 20% since the fourth quarter of 2022, increasing from less than 16% in the first quarter of 2021.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Carrying the ball up the pitch, he holds it, waiting to commit one of the opponent's defenders.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Carrying a plastic bag filled with guppies as a boy, he struck up a conversation with an aquarium-owning neighbor who had “the largest record collection I’d seen inside a place where someone lived.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It turned into a full-time band that has released five studio albums and five EPs in the years since, with songs including “Human Carrying Capacity,” “Become a Machine” and “Call My Name.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Carrying sewing machines up and down factory stairs no longer wore him out.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden