trundling

Example Sentences

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Rovers currently are trundling on Mars, attempting to learn whether life existed more than three billion years ago when the planet was warmer and wetter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

Driverless Cars: Cable cars are still trundling up San Francisco’s hills, but robotaxis from Waymo are shaping up as the city’s latest must-do for visitors.

From New York Times • May 23, 2024

The coal cars kept trundling past until a big black steam locomotive, puffing huge gouts of white smoke, finally appeared.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam