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wheelbarrow

[hweel-bar-oh, weel-] / ˈʰwilˌbær oʊ, ˈwil- /


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Store your wheelbarrow inside your shed so rainwater can’t collect.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

"I've learned how to do everything with one leg, except to be able to use a wheelbarrow," said Williams with a wry smile.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

It continued in both domestic and competitive forms with the help of the wheelbarrow, which arrived in the Middle Ages, presumably along with feudalism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

When Jasmin is nine months old, Allan plops her inside Gloria’s green wheelbarrow.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Water difficulties are forcing many Cubans to haul the precious resource for long distances, transporting it via wheelbarrows, bicycles, car trunks and even horse-drawn carts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

"Now, I just sit around. No job. No school. No money to start anything. Sometimes I help push wheelbarrows in the market just to eat. Other days, I do nothing but think," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

Inside, workers collected debris in wheelbarrows, their faces blackened by floating dust.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

I knew how to maneuver the wheelbarrows, and I jumped up to help him.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Groceries are wheelbarrowed to the front door by a deliveryman whose significance you don’t grasp until he turns his back, revealing the red prisoner stripe on his jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

The meat is then meticulously divided into portions and wheelbarrowed away by each islander.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2018

He worked as a bellhop at a swanky hotel, wheelbarrowed asphalt and busted up fights as a bouncer at an Irish tavern.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2018

The post office is closed indefinitely, as are the stores except the Big Sur Deli, whose employees wheelbarrowed supplies across the bridge before it closed.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2017

"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When his $75 ran out, he wangled a $4.20-a-week job wheelbarrowing loads of coal into the university powerhouse, and ashes out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive


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