trundle
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Believe it or not, U.S. stocks have gotten cheaper this year, even as the S&P 500 has continued to trundle higher.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
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
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
He visualized its probable progress with agonizing clearness-that one would start slowly, drop from ledge to ledge, trundle across the neck like an outsize steam roller.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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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
A man on a bullock cart trundles by.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
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
Di Maria gathered and squared the ball across goal but somehow it trundled behind to the relief of the home support.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
McCoy’s junker of a car trundled down the street.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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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
The first time Chicago resident John Roberts 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
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
After two years of trundling and triangulating his way across France, in 1669 he announced a more accurate measure of 110.46 kilometers for one degree of arc.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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