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[truhn-dl] / ˈtrʌn dl /










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Private vehicles distribute everything from water and food to toilet paper and soap, while trucks belonging to the World Central Kitchen NGO trundle through the coastal city.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I could have slept several more people in mine, because it included a pull-out couch and trundle bed in addition to the king-size bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Yet stocks have continued to trundle higher regardless.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

One neighbour even reckons she saw a tour bus trundle past the house.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

But she said it to the empty darkness of her bedroom, and heard nothing in reply but the low trundle of a distant lorry, making its way through the night.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Inevitably, such an anniversary will have some worrying that the bull is showing signs of age, with chances of its demise increasing as it trundles on.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

Jack Walton flapped at Lewis Strapp’s long throw and the ball hit an unsuspecting Cameron Blues in a crowded box and trundles wide of the post.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024

As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

He is as fat as a hamster in winter, but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front-line.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

A steady stream of trucks trundled past, sometimes drowning out conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Stocks trundled higher all summer with few interruptions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

Thousands of foreign forces in air-conditioned vehicles trundled through the Sahelian steppe, trying to take out terrorist leaders.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

Di Maria gathered and squared the ball across goal but somehow it trundled behind to the relief of the home support.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

He lifted the handles of a flat-bottomed barrow and trundled it out into the woods behind the inn, his feet crunching in the fallen leaves.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Euphemistically known as “mobile lounges,” these hulking, 40-ton machines from the 1960s and ’70s look and feel like paramilitary vehicles trundling through a desert dystopia.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Buses are infrequent and haphazard, while the subway has only six trundling lines radiating out from the centre, making connections impossible without going all the way in and then all the way out again.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

As a child, Plant recalls trundling in his family’s car through interesting, evocative landscapes and, “Misty Mountains that actually were misty mountains,” he says, making another of his not-infrequent Zeppelin asides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Over the summer, locals noticed tankers in the traffic trundling through Tangley toward Conholt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

Dinos of all shapes and sizes should’ve been trundling down the throughway, skittering across intersections, hauling cargo along for a late delivery at some grocer or apothecary.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older


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