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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

"What was really bizarre about this scene was there was not only a young woman barely alive on the sofa, but there was a wheelbarrow in the living room."

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

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

I set the lantern in the wheelbarrow, pushed it down the hall to the fourth door on the right, and held my breath as I unlocked it.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

With pickaxes and wheelbarrows, dozens of Palestinian workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests are clearing rubble from the ruins of the Gaza Strip's oldest and largest mosque.

From BBC Dec. 4, 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

In Mangwe, the young and the old lined up for food, some with donkey carts to carry home whatever they might get, others with wheelbarrows.

From Seattle Times Mar. 30, 2024

I looked out my bedroom window and waited until Ali and Hassan went grocery shopping to the bazaar, pushing the empty wheelbarrows in front of them.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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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