trolley
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Karl ducks into a shop and comes out with a bottle of water, flinging it under a bungee cord attached to his trolley, which he had made in Nicaragua early in the adventure.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
There’s a switch just below the car that would send the trolley onto one of two tracks.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
At the weekly market in the southern Romanian town of Calarasi, Florica Vasile goes from vendor to vendor loading her shopping trolley with vegetables the locals say are cheaper than anywhere else in the city.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Local attractions—in addition to the architecture—include the surrounding vineyards, trolley rides through the city center, ghost tours, and the annual Danish heritage festival.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
But then the trolley stopped and Ophie’s mother was pulling her toward the door.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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It's a familiar sight: a crowded waiting room, trolleys in corridors, stressed doctors and nurses.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
In 1916, when the 36-inch pipeline was dropped into the ground along Sunset Boulevard, cars were just beginning to compete with trolleys and horse-drawn wagons in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
"Mum was one trolley in a sea of trolleys," Suzanne recalls.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
From time to time, waiters pushing trolleys roll past carrying sides of roast beef, to be carved at diners’ tables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
From the trolleys that everyone used to get around to the department stores that offered a dizzying assortment of ready-made clothes, city living was different.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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“I’m being trolleyed on Twitter,” Edina whines to Saffron, clearly more concerned about her own reputation than the fate of a supermodel she was hoping to use as a cash cow for her PR business.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2016
After the final, as German fans trolleyed pints of Happy until the small hours, residents of Brussels complained to one policeman about the noise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2016
Traditionally, he saws a woman in half, and the boxed halves are trolleyed on-and offstage during a good part of the evening.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle.
From You Can Search Me by Hugh McHugh
James and Margaret had trolleyed over to see Roger and Helen from Glen Point, about three quarters of an hour's ride from Rosemont where the Mortons lived.
From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
As for the metallic pepperpot-shaped aliens, created by designer Raymond Cusick, Ms Webb remembers rehearsals with actors "trolleying" around on castors in just the bottom halves of the characters that would become The Doctor's nemesis.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
She has become a familiar trope in film and television, trolleying around with fag ash, drink spilling, hem riding up, and is almost always white.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
Greenfield, where the party spent the night, they found to be a pleasant old town with the wide, tree-bordered streets to which they were growing accustomed in this trolleying pilgrimage.
From Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
I'm just trolleying out to father's to see what an evening session will do.
From A Reversible Santa Claus by Meredith Nicholson
Don was for trolleying over to the shore, having a dip in the ocean and returning to school in good time.
From Left Guard Gilbert by Edward C. Caswell
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