barrow

Example Sentences

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Hadi’s battered metal barrow was in the other, piled with flattened cardboard to feed the fire.

From Washington Post

“It must have come as quite a shock because she ended up swerving down into the barrow pit and back up onto the road.”

From Washington Post

All off-duty sailors and Marines were ordered to set up a kind of bucket brigade, using wheel barrows to shuttle coal from other coal bunkers, according to a 1964 account by retired Marine Corps Lt.

From Washington Post

The north side of its base was boxed in with scaffolding; as I approached, I could see the laborers toiling to restore the monument, carting sand in barrows and hoisting buckets with rope and pulley.

From New York Times

The booze-fueled races — some might say, the real races at Daytona — are an informal tradition of dumping your buddy in the belly of the barrow then sprinting, stumbling to the finish.

From Seattle Times