schlep
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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
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
This was true, but we had underestimated two variables: December in Chicago and our motivation to schlep boxes after a seven-hour drive in a U-haul.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
“He must’ve paid really well for you to schlep all the way out here whenever you found something nice,” I said as we entered the marshy gloom.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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 went on tours with me, built my bed and schlepped all my clothes over from Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 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
After a “biting incident” in early March, White House “sexy bad boy” Major Biden was schlepped off to Delaware along with his German shepherd colleague, Champ, for additional training.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2021
Boomers tend to take longer trips and pack more bags—and don’t want to deal with schlepping them through airports and on and off cruises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Portnoy hustles for years, schlepping papers around town in a secondhand van and, on occasion, cleaning poop from one of his newspaper boxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
Once you understand that “Conclave” is “Mean Girls,” schlepping to a theater becomes much more appealing.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
And in her defense, she said it had been a long, wet day schlepping through monsoon floods.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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