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
Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the crash.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge, and trek the Himalayan landscape.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Neither we nor the sledge broke through at all, and the sledge pulled so light that it was hard to believe we are still hauling about a hundred pounds apiece.
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
Janine also recalls "taking sacks of potatoes on a sledge, from her neighbour to the local shop," adding: "My eldest can still remember being sledged over the tops of hedges that were buried in drifts."
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2021
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
He bowled the world’s highest, silliest bouncer and sledged it up loads while bowling at 70mph.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2015
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
There was no aggression thrown at them, no sledging, nothing to throw them off their stride.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
When they arrived the resort "looked lovely", Mrs O'Neil said, and the family enjoyed their first afternoon there doing some sledging, snowball fights and snow angels.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
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
The team manager seemingly failed to mention anything about sledging some of the game's legends, however.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
In spite of their regular sledging practice and exercise, the dogs themselves were still semi-wild beasts, and dogfights broke out constantly.
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
It was likely taken away in pieces on sledges and tossed through holes in the lake’s ice, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2018
Elisha thought about abandoning ship and returning to Upernavik, Greenland, but worried that it was too late in the year to try to make the treacherous overland trip on sledges.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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