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schlep

[shlep] / ʃlɛp /


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You have to schlep around while it’s raining, snowing or just hot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

I schlepped in oversized bags of flour and sugar to make cranberry-orange and pumpkin-chocolate loaves for Christmas—leaving a fine dusting of powder in the pantry.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

Lader, 40, described "grabbing babies who were being schlepped across the street, and finding parents who were hysterical that their kids weren't here."

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

He and his wife have schlepped materials home by train, “five big valises recently from Prague.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Since Red Stitch uses only purchased grapes, they must be schlepped to Herrera’s winemaking facilities as part of a heavily orchestrated process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

But why don’t the rest of us yokels get schlepped around by private jets when we’re in grave danger?

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2023

His daughter, Lisa Wright, recalled that one Christmas, they wound up schlepping an emergency eggnog delivery from one Wawa that had extra to another that ran out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

With its Golden Gate Bridge views, the beach is a magnet for wedding parties, such as one seen schlepping across an empty parking lot after a photo shoot this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Still, they supported her ambitions, schlepping her to and from auditions and performances, and their creative natures helped her to see that a career in the arts “wasn’t off-limits,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

Something I wish people knew about the fashion and styling industry is that 75% is hard work and schlepping, you’re carrying things all day, every day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

The days of endlessly schlepping back and forth to church were no longer my problem, and I was lazily sleeping in.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah


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