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They then lug heavy loads back home, spreading the seaweed out on the ground and snipping off residue.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Encampment residents lug their bags onto a bus and head to their destinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

Many people over the years have recommended that I get an e-reader so I don’t have to lug around books in my suitcase.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026

Another reported that the artist would wake up at 3 a.m. to lug his supplies to the perfect spot and, in the throes of his work, would forget to eat all day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

First, Dad and Doug took down the side gate so the machine could lug the granite to the back.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Every morning, he lugs a five-gallon water tank into his trailer, and he eats lunch with a group of other founders on the site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Sequel Death Stranding 2, out on PlayStation 5 from Thursday, picks up the story of protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, a delivery man who lugs precariously balanced cargo across a post-apocalyptic Earth.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025

With the help of a hostess, he lugs a speaker outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Which means that unless an HLA lugs an invading virus to where the leukocyte can notice it, that part of the immune system cannot know it exists, let alone attack it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Inventory had to be lugged up a flight of stairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

A devout Catholic, Becerra Moran owned a five-pound statuette of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which took up most of the space in the battered suitcase that she lugged around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

Potatoes would arrive in huge wooden crates and have to be lugged up from the cellar.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

At twelve-thirty the outside door was locked, crates were lugged into the kitchen, with Peter, Father and Mr. van Daan stumbling up the stairs.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

WSJ | Buy Side: Pick up small messes without lugging out the big vacuum—see our top handheld-vacuum picks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

In Fiorito, neighbors come and go to "Diego's house," as they call it, lugging containers which volunteers fill with chicken stew or other meals cooked in giant cauldrons in the yard.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

I was uneasy about their presence and disappointed when they all joined the crowd and started lugging the evicted articles back inside.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison