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The owner of a nearby indoor playground says families who have to lug strollers and diaper bags alongside small tots typically won’t opt for the bus over a car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

“I can go into town, sell off the goods, and get out of there by noon. We’ll be twice as fast if we don’t have these pelts to lug around.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Hauge Sin lugs bottles of Chinese wine onto the subway to pour samples for stone-faced sommeliers and restaurant wine buyers, who sometimes come back with an order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sequel Death Stranding 2, out on PlayStation 5 from Thursday, picks up the story of protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, a delivery man who lugs precariously balanced cargo across a post-apocalyptic Earth.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025

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

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

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

I lugged my bike out of the garage and sped down the sidewalk, whipped by the breeze in the blistering sun.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

For a start, petrol machines are much more powerful, which makes for quicker work, so less time is spent lugging around heavy equipment.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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

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

Men were lugging brand-new sofas out of stores.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides