lug

Example Sentences

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Prisoners on kitchen detail lugged in great buckets of gruel made of wheat and peas, tasteless but nourishing.

From Literature

I lugged my basket around the side of the building and found him sitting on an upturned pail, a grease-streaked rag in his hand.

From Literature

The team went slower and slower until they were walking, lugging up the middle of the ridge and—perhaps after a quarter of a mile—they stopped.

From Literature

Who was that old man, the director wondered, who shuffled in lugging 10 times as many photos as anyone else?

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times