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trolley

[trol-ee] / ˈtrɒl i /


NOUN
lazy Susan
Synonyms


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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

The Acme plunged into a ditch in Ohio and was tugged out by a passing trolley.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Not a single other person in the trolley even glanced in their direction.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

Footage shown on local media shows passengers on medical trolleys near Bekasi Timur Station, with other images showing rescuers trying to free people from the train wreckage.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

On a recent weekday afternoon, delivery men dragged trolleys stacked with bundles of returned clothing through the halls.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

At roughly the same time, a 16-year-old prankster from Ohio named Jake Paul was posting six-second Vine videos - chatting to pineapples in supermarkets and climbing into strangers' shopping trolleys for a laugh.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2025

The ghosts on the trolley cars had never been able to hurt the passengers, and there were far more people riding the trolleys of Pittsburgh than anywhere else.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

“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

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

"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle.

From You Can Search Me by Hugh McHugh

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

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

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




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