lug
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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
Anecdotal data suggest there is also an exodus of regular people who load their belongings into rental trucks and lug them to another state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Gabe took a break from his poker game long enough to watch me lug my mom’s bags to the car.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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Every morning, he lugs a five-gallon water tank into his trailer, and he eats lunch with a group of other founders on the site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
With the help of a hostess, he lugs a speaker outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
The lugs and heroes and bums all change, but not the narrative.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
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
Zayd gets up, runs to get Jamal Mamoo’s old book from the family room, and lugs it to the table.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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But he grew especially animated when we talked about the small wooden end table we had lugged outside to the backyard for the interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
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
Once the water in the kettle boiled, Joseph lugged it upstairs, using a towel he found by the sink so the hot metal handle wouldn’t burn him.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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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
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
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
As a Single-A manager, he was responsible for lugging a printer onto the team bus and restocking the ink so he could have scouting reports in the dugout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
They were rolling their barrels and lugging their crates, talking and laughing.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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