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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

But ideas are bigger than one tasteless lug with a thing for golden toilets.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Simple codes like this are easy to remember, but anything complicated will need a code book, which can be hard to lug around.

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

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

Back at the camp, Fatuma lugs a plastic jerrycan of water home from a communal tap.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022

I've finished only two candlesticks when Mama lugs the rug back inside and sees what I'm doing.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Once a week after her parental leave, she lugged the hulking computer to the office and downloaded the latest version of the film so she could keep working after bedtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

On Thursday, after each lugged a 60-pound electric bicycle up the locally-known Hillside Vance “secret staircase,” the couple were able to gain access to their street in the Huntington Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

He hand-cranked cream separators and lugged 120-pound cans of milk and sweet cream around dairy farms, loading them onto trucks for delivery to the Dungeness-Sequim Cooperative Creamery.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

On a recent morning, out-of-work factory hands, some lugging suitcases, wandered along a street where a cluster of hiring agencies advertised what jobs were still available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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

We plowed through the woods, lugging the gunnysack, passing it back and forth between us when it got heavy.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon