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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

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

The kids were especially amazed to hear how he had to lug water from the creek just to wash dishes or take a bath.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 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

Clotho rolls his eyes and lugs his invisible turnips over to his side of the blanket.

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

DNC officials lugged large garbage bags packed with signs — their handles sticking out of the bags — to the top edges of the arena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Jessie had lugged Megan's boom box all the way downstairs, and Megan was doing the DJ thing with her CD collection.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

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

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

In Fiorito, neighbors come and go to "Diego's house," as they call it, lugging containers which volunteers fill with chicken stew or other meals cooked in giant cauldrons in the yard.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 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

Moments later we too left, lugging the spoils of our scavenging.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane