wheelbarrow
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But some aspects of his account didn't add up, such as why he had used a wheelbarrow to get her back into the house and waited 14 hours to call an ambulance.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
"I came on Tuesday. I live a 30-minute walk away, and I take the sacks back with that," he said, pointing to the wheelbarrow he acquired for the purpose.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
On the following day, Williams honored her sports skills by hosting volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races, and pickleball games.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
They then dropped it out the window, carried it across the river bridge in a wheelbarrow and fled in a car parked near the embankment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
They walked single file, Grandpa in the lead, followed by Dale pushing the wheelbarrow, and then Kendra in the rear.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Simon Sargent, defending, said Pugh had been out drinking and was on his way home when he noticed the mixer and the wheelbarrows by the side of the road.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
Producers said the equipment, including a cement mixer and wheelbarrows, had been fitted with tracking devices and was recovered by police on Sunday.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Performers are robed and instruments are carried on ramshackle wheelbarrows, setting up the transitory mood of the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
“It’s being able to take a step back really from football and saying I’m a human first, how can I help other people,” he said after mixing and moving wheelbarrows full of cement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
“I’m pretty proud of it. I lugged a few wheelbarrows of sand here from that playground they’re building off of Maiden Lane.”
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
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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