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

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

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