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

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

They then lug heavy loads back home, spreading the seaweed out on the ground and snipping off residue.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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

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

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

The lugs and heroes and bums all change, but not the narrative.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Pendergrass lugs her farmers market haul to her apartment in Brooklyn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

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

Henry lugs out the half barrel for another neighborhood cookout.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

Nearly 6½ hours before UCLA’s kickoff against Washington, Jamie Hickcox-Baker and Dee Fitzgerald-Cardello lugged a table across the pavement in Lot K, having already unfurled a couple of folding chairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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

You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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

Now, he's working on a two-legged version that will require even more responsive legs to keep its balance while lugging Bruton around.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026

A stagehand walked onto the stage lugging a suitcase.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs