handcart

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

There are motorised vehicles like cars, buses and motorcycles vying for space with non-motorised transport such as bicycles, cycle rickshaws and handcarts, animal-drawn carts, pedestrians and stray animals.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025

The two boys, aged 2 and 4, romped through the labyrinth of La Soledad, under lines of drying laundry, past deliverymen pushing stacked handcarts and carpenters hammering away at tottering structures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

That year, volunteers — including a dozen members of the Huskies football team — used handcarts to wheel out thousands of plants.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2022

For the first two years I lived in New York, I would stare enviously at the Brooklyn grandmas and their little handcarts as I stubbornly lugged my giant bags of groceries home.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2021

The road to the gate was blocked with barrows and handcarts.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien