trolley
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In the southern Athens seaside suburb of Glyfada, a pensioner struggles to cross an avenue with her shopping trolley, zigzagging between cars stuck in traffic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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
When the attacker later fled into a greengrocer's, Asadian barricaded him in with a shopping trolley, helping to give police enough time to arrive.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Relief flooded through Ophie the moment she and her mother left Daffodil Manor and lasted the entire trolley ride and the walk from their stop to Aunt Rose’s house.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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
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
"Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible."
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
She said it just didn't look right as people lay on trolleys outside resuscitation areas, adding that they must have witnessed horrific things.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
And trolleys did not care for the dead any more than they cared for the living.
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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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 Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle.
From You Can Search Me by McHugh, Hugh
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 Nicholson, Meredith
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 Caswell, Edward C.
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 Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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