sledge
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He later documented his journeys through India on elephant-back and across Siberia by sledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Using sledge hammers, they collected hundreds of kilograms of rock and took them back to labs for analysis.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge, and trek the Himalayan landscape.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
We asked it to draw a springer spaniel going down a hill on a sledge.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Those caribou-skin furs were exactly the same as hers, but they’d tied the traces on that sledge completely wrong.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
It's all about getting sledged in the airport, or in restaurants.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
"I remember him getting sledged by the opposition and he preceded to ramp like he did for Australia against some pretty intimidating first grade bowlers."
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
He has navigated the Amazon and sledged across the Arctic.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2019
He bowled the world’s highest, silliest bouncer and sledged it up loads while bowling at 70mph.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2015
More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Australia's sledging perhaps masked some of their own struggles as they build towards hosting an Ashes series against England, with captain Pat Cummins hinting changes could be afoot for a forthcoming tour to West Indies.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
It will come as no surprise that Santa will not be sledging through inches of the white stuff here in the UK.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
The call-outs included teams helping with a potential cardiac arrest, a suspected stroke and a suspected spinal injury caused from a sledging accident.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
It remains the only time a Namibian has taken five wickets in a Cricket World Cup match, and includes another dose of sledging from 'Doc' - this time for future England captain Michael Vaughan.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
It was hard sledging in that much-folded land, with more than my weight to pull, but the snow was thick and already growing firm, and I was in dothe.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The players use sledges with two blades and two sticks to push themselves and handle the puck, and games consist of three 15-minute periods.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
It’s generally believed that the Egyptians moved massive stone blocks to the heights along large ramps, greased by water or wet clay, using a system of sledges, ropes, rollers, and levers.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2023
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
