trundling

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Buses are infrequent and haphazard, while the subway has only six trundling lines radiating out from the centre, making connections impossible without going all the way in and then all the way out again.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

As a child, Plant recalls trundling in his family’s car through interesting, evocative landscapes and, “Misty Mountains that actually were misty mountains,” he says, making another of his not-infrequent Zeppelin asides.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Mr. Chen shows the family trundling in a horse-drawn cart toward forbidding mountains wreathed in mist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Stokes, in the covers, swooped and threw off-balance at the bowler's end, catching the trundling Pant short of his ground.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

After two years of trundling and triangulating his way across France, in 1669 he announced a more accurate measure of 110.46 kilometers for one degree of arc.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson