lugging

Example Sentences

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Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

In Fiorito, neighbors come and go to "Diego's house," as they call it, lugging containers which volunteers fill with chicken stew or other meals cooked in giant cauldrons in the yard.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Now, he's working on a two-legged version that will require even more responsive legs to keep its balance while lugging Bruton around.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Reduced to lugging boxes in a retail store, he longs to get back into the paper game he thought he played so successfully for 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

It happened as he was clamping and lugging Mars Bar down the gauntlet of Cobras, trying to keep him alive — and what was Mars Bar doing?

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli