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

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

They’re teachers from the San Fernando Valley who go to all the Olympics and lug a bunch of weights — suitcases containing tens of thousands of commemorative pins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 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

People had to lug their own water, in buckets or milk jugs or soda containers.

From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman

Every morning, he lugs a five-gallon water tank into his trailer, and he eats lunch with a group of other founders on the site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The lugs and heroes and bums all change, but not the narrative.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Infrastructure also plays a role, with leaks plaguing the network that lugs water up to and across Mexico's high-altitude capital.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

He is no longer the only animal to achieve fame for sporting lengthy lugs.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022

Jade lugs over her whiteboard and a bunch of dry-erase markers.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

But he grew especially animated when we talked about the small wooden end table we had lugged outside to the backyard for the interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

In one of Maddux’s staple anecdotes about her daughter, Maris as a toddler lugged her Barbie boombox out to where a construction crew was working on her parents’ house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

Valeria Serna of climate nonprofit Resilient Palisades recently purchased a 500-gallon water tank on her own dime and lugged it to several neighborhoods that lacked water access.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

She and Sean lugged it all the way to the parking lot.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: Pick up small messes without lugging out the big vacuum—see our top handheld-vacuum picks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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

As soon as Papi is out the door, Mami comes back lugging a bucket of water and a large basin and towels.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar