schlep

Example Sentences

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He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

She still laughs about it now, whispering to my dad back then, half-horrified, half-amused: “BYOM? They want us to schlep raw meat to their house. Is that… something people do?”

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2026

Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe before the Holocaust, is now perhaps best known to many English speakers through words such as "schlep", "klutz" and "chutzpah".

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

The Zamels wake before dawn for the two-hour schlep to the Westside to keep them in school with their friends.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

Admittedly, I have to schlep to the rover five times a day to check e-mail.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir