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

A devout Catholic, Becerra Moran owned a five-pound statuette of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which took up most of the space in the battered suitcase that she lugged around.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

Laboriously, step-by-feeble-step, he lugged earth-filled pails up the rungs and dumped them onto the huge mound rising beside his hole.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols