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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

Another reported that the artist would wake up at 3 a.m. to lug his supplies to the perfect spot and, in the throes of his work, would forget to eat all day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Smiles all round: festival-goers happily lug their belongings across the farm as they head to where they plan to pitch their tent for the next five nights.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025

We would lug the dripping containers back home, where my mother would cook the blood in a large saucepan, let it simmer into a thick, pasty, brownish slush.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

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

She lugs heavy tomes from the shelves and sets them on a nearby table.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Duchamp clambered into a taxi, packed up his canvas and lugged it home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

Chickenhound was lugged inside as rapidly as possible.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Filmed at night, it shows the star and a group of others lugging duffel bags and equipment towards the Hollywood sign.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

“I don’t know where I’ll store this meat,” complained someone who was lugging a whole carcass of a sheep over his shoulder.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane