trundling

Example Sentences

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Buses are infrequent and haphazard, while the subway has only six trundling lines radiating out from the centre, making connections impossible without going all the way in and then all the way out again.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Rovers currently are trundling on Mars, attempting to learn whether life existed more than three billion years ago when the planet was warmer and wetter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

As a child, Plant recalls trundling in his family’s car through interesting, evocative landscapes and, “Misty Mountains that actually were misty mountains,” he says, making another of his not-infrequent Zeppelin asides.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Of all England bowlers to take at least 50 wickets, only one can better Atkinson's strike-rate, and that was George Lohmann, trundling in when Queen Victoria was on the throne.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

The coal cars kept trundling past until a big black steam locomotive, puffing huge gouts of white smoke, finally appeared.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam