lug

Example Sentences

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Reduced to lugging boxes in a retail store, he longs to get back into the paper game he thought he played so successfully for 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another reported that the artist would wake up at 3 a.m. to lug his supplies to the perfect spot and, in the throes of his work, would forget to eat all day.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

So why are we going to waste our time, money, and energy lugging a 12-pound frozen bird across town and into our kitchens when half your guests probably won’t even eat it?

From Salon

Simon lugged it up to the nursery for her and grunted mightily when he put it down.

From Literature