sledge
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He later documented his journeys through India on elephant-back and across Siberia by sledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Using sledge hammers, they collected hundreds of kilograms of rock and took them back to labs for analysis.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge, and trek the Himalayan landscape.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
We asked it to draw a springer spaniel going down a hill on a sledge.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
He had gone right down feetfirst, and nothing kept the sledge from following him but my weight, which held the rear third of the runners still on solid ice.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
It's all about getting sledged in the airport, or in restaurants.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
"I remember him getting sledged by the opposition and he preceded to ramp like he did for Australia against some pretty intimidating first grade bowlers."
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
The results showed that, although participants noted feeling more angry and distracted when sledged, it did not affect the overall shooting performance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019
It is a noble intention but I prefer the approach employed by Viv Richards when he was sledged by the Glamorgan fast bowler Greg Thomas.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019
More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
It will come as no surprise that Santa will not be sledging through inches of the white stuff here in the UK.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
Instead, he appeared on Kremlin-controlled television, filmed wandering through a Moscow suburb, reminiscing in perfect Russian about sledging on cardboard as a child.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
He has been hospitalised in sledging and scooter accidents.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023
The call-outs included teams helping with a potential cardiac arrest, a suspected stroke and a suspected spinal injury caused from a sledging accident.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
They would carry sledging rations and biscuits for three days of travel.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
It’s generally believed that the Egyptians moved massive stone blocks to the heights along large ramps, greased by water or wet clay, using a system of sledges, ropes, rollers, and levers.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2023
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
Finally, at midnight on Aug. 11, the sledges and tractors arrived in a blaze of searchlights and a rumble of engines.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2020
Under a sky peopled with millions of stars and a glaring moon, the sledges bumped and clattered over the ruts and stones until they reached clear snow at the edge of town.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
