lug

Most people would vouch for specific items, such as a spare tire or a lug wrench, if they had limited choices on what to keep in their car every day.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

I’m wheeling my bike off it with balletic ease, definitely not annoying my fellow commuters as I lug it down the stairs.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Many people over the years have recommended that I get an e-reader so I don’t have to lug around books in my suitcase.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026

A $1,000 bag of silver coins weighs more than 50 pounds, making it cumbersome to lug around.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

They lug the bags half a mile up a hill.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Hauge Sin lugs bottles of Chinese wine onto the subway to pour samples for stone-faced sommeliers and restaurant wine buyers, who sometimes come back with an order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sequel Death Stranding 2, out on PlayStation 5 from Thursday, picks up the story of protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, a delivery man who lugs precariously balanced cargo across a post-apocalyptic Earth.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025

With the help of a hostess, he lugs a speaker outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

A short time later, he lugs a great cauldron into the room and begins ladling soup into cracked earthenware bowls.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Inventory had to be lugged up a flight of stairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Potatoes would arrive in huge wooden crates and have to be lugged up from the cellar.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

Others lugged tubs stuffed with blankets, sleeping bags and first-aid kits.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2024

Yasmin Morton-Bagot and Mum lugged a last box into Mum’s Datsun.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

I was a butcher’s assistant, lugging heavy meat up from the basement, I delivered newspapers and had other part-time jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Groups of all ages converged on the city centre to the sound of drums and guitars, with hardy pilgrims lugging rucksacks and camping material on their backs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

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

She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

That fall, a mysterious British visitor turned up at the estate, lugging a briefcase.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield