lugged

Example Sentences

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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

In one of Maddux’s staple anecdotes about her daughter, Maris as a toddler lugged her Barbie boombox out to where a construction crew was working on her parents’ house.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

For much of the day I did chores: cleaned the house, gathered firewood, made fire and lugged water.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane