wheelbarrow
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Store your wheelbarrow inside your shed so rainwater can’t collect.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
A wheelbarrow stood at the bottom and they nearly crashed into it several times.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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
They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
Inside, workers collected debris in wheelbarrows, their faces blackened by floating dust.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Built from thousands of rocks from the San Gabriel River that were carried in wheelbarrows and with donkeys, Our Lady of Guadalupe opened in 1917, when the first Mass was celebrated inside the small chapel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
After arriving in the morning, we would fetch our picks, shovels, hammers, and wheelbarrows from a zinc shed at the top of the quarry.
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
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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