trundle
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Private vehicles distribute everything from water and food to toilet paper and soap, while trucks belonging to the World Central Kitchen NGO trundle through the coastal city.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
I know, I know, they’re adorable, with their wide “eyes” and squat toddler-like determination as they trundle along, pausing in careful recalculation whenever they encounter a curb, street sign, a sidewalk cafe table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
The performers trundle the keyboard instruments out for use and then off again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Yet stocks have continued to trundle higher regardless.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
“Here thy whittling will be more at home,” said the friar, settling Robin in a small trundle cart and giving him the pieces of the little cross which was almost finished.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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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
A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
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 bus trundles for another hour before we reach the city of Izmir, where we disembark at the otogar.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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A steady stream of trucks trundled past, sometimes drowning out conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
Both players struggled to hold serve as the match trundled past the two-hour mark, and Sabalenka continued to receive medical attention.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024
He unscrewed the hose and turned the wheelbarrow over and trundled it across the floor and back.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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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
Mr. Chen shows the family trundling in a horse-drawn cart toward forbidding mountains wreathed in mist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Driverless Cars: Cable cars are still trundling up San Francisco’s hills, but robotaxis from Waymo are shaping up as the city’s latest must-do for visitors.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
Now, as race time approached, sales representatives were trundling the last few radios ordered the night before into Seattle homes and setting them up.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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