trundle
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The game would trundle to a draw, leaving Scotland needing all three groups to go in their favour - a probability of 0.07% - for their World Cup party to continue.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
I could have slept several more people in mine, because it included a pull-out couch and trundle bed in addition to the king-size bed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Fortunately, for anybody who bought ahead of Friday’s pullback, there is reason to believe stocks could trundle higher in the short term.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026
As hungry birds of prey circle above, hundreds of garbage trucks trundle through the town below, leaving trails of rubbish in their wake.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Even the fun of fitting arms and legs to the doll could not keep Robin from wanting to get out into the fields and away from bench and bed, stool and trundle cart.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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Inevitably, such an anniversary will have some worrying that the bull is showing signs of age, with chances of its demise increasing as it trundles on.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
And then Kayte usually trundles in, and she’ll offer to tee up some oatmeal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
The six-wheeled, solar-powered rover will rely on the Vikram lander to maintain communications with Earth as it trundles around the landing region for 14 Earth days—or about one period of lunar daylight.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
The wagon trundles down the road that Jackson tells me leads to Nicodemus but I’m in no hurry to follow it.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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A steady stream of trucks trundled past, sometimes drowning out conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
However, after hitting his second shot into greenside rough, he could only hack his ball out and watch helplessly as it trundled across the green and into the water, leading to another bogey.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
Stocks trundled higher all summer with few interruptions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
Thousands of foreign forces in air-conditioned vehicles trundled through the Sahelian steppe, trying to take out terrorist leaders.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Trash trundled past like tumbleweeds in old Western movies.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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Euphemistically known as “mobile lounges,” these hulking, 40-ton machines from the 1960s and ’70s look and feel like paramilitary vehicles trundling through a desert dystopia.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Buckley is considering buying a permanent AC to supplement the portable model he has been trundling between rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
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
All the gasoline is going to the war, and few cars come trundling through the school gates; food is delivered by the same withered mule, its ribs showing as it drags its cart.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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