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trundle

[truhn-dl] / ˈtrʌn dl /










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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

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

Stocks trading outside of the U.S. mostly continued to trundle higher in February, with big gains particularly in the South Korean market.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

Outside, along the valley's winding roads, lorries and bulldozers trundle up to the disaster site.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2025

One day Robin was sitting in the trundle cart finishing the child’s doll when Brother Luke came into the garden.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

A small white car trundles into view, rolls across the floor, and bumps into a barrier set against the wall.

From BBC Jul. 8, 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

He is as fat as a hamster in winter, but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front-line.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

They ran and hid in the scrub as the truck trundled on.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2024

The flowers nodded like bright, knowledgeable children as I trundled them down the hall.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

The first time Chicago resident John Robertson saw a delivery robot trundling down the sidewalk on his street he was impressed.

From BBC Jun. 17, 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

Dinos of all shapes and sizes should’ve been trundling down the throughway, skittering across intersections, hauling cargo along for a late delivery at some grocer or apothecary.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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