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trolley

[trol-ee] / ˈtrɒl i /


NOUN
lazy Susan
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There’s a switch just below the car that would send the trolley onto one of two tracks.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

At the weekly market in the southern Romanian town of Calarasi, Florica Vasile goes from vendor to vendor loading her shopping trolley with vegetables the locals say are cheaper than anywhere else in the city.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

It's a song that has become inescapable, whether you're scrolling on TikTok, listening to the radio or even filling up your trolley on the weekly shop.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Local attractions—in addition to the architecture—include the surrounding vineyards, trolley rides through the city center, ghost tours, and the annual Danish heritage festival.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

She shivered as a harried-looking white man boarded the trolley right through the closed door, his suit torn and bloody, his hat missing entirely.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

It's a familiar sight: a crowded waiting room, trolleys in corridors, stressed doctors and nurses.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

In 1916, when the 36-inch pipeline was dropped into the ground along Sunset Boulevard, cars were just beginning to compete with trolleys and horse-drawn wagons in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

"Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible."

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

In the early 20th century, Woods continued to innovate, developing overhead conducting systems that allowed electric streetcars and trolleys to replace steam power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Wherever the living gathered, so did the dead, and nowhere more thickly than the Pittsburgh crosstown trolleys.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

“I’m being trolleyed on Twitter,” Edina whines to Saffron, clearly more concerned about her own reputation than the fate of a supermodel she was hoping to use as a cash cow for her PR business.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2016

After the final, as German fans trolleyed pints of Happy until the small hours, residents of Brussels complained to one policeman about the noise.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2016

Traditionally, he saws a woman in half, and the boxed halves are trolleyed on-and offstage during a good part of the evening.

From Time Magazine Archive

"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle.

From You Can Search Me by Hugh McHugh

On the way back from Ossining, they trolleyed to Dobbs’ Ferry and visited the old Washington Headquarters there.

From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

As for the metallic pepperpot-shaped aliens, created by designer Raymond Cusick, Ms Webb remembers rehearsals with actors "trolleying" around on castors in just the bottom halves of the characters that would become The Doctor's nemesis.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

She has become a familiar trope in film and television, trolleying around with fag ash, drink spilling, hem riding up, and is almost always white.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020

Greenfield, where the party spent the night, they found to be a pleasant old town with the wide, tree-bordered streets to which they were growing accustomed in this trolleying pilgrimage.

From Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Don was for trolleying over to the shore, having a dip in the ocean and returning to school in good time.

From Left Guard Gilbert by Edward C. Caswell

I'm just trolleying out to father's to see what an evening session will do.

From A Reversible Santa Claus by Meredith Nicholson




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