wheelbarrow
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He then must use a wheelbarrow to get it to his home before heaving it up a flight of stairs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Another pushed a wheelbarrow, calling out, “Does anyone need a shovel, saw or hammer?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Store your wheelbarrow inside your shed so rainwater can’t collect.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
A neighbour even helped him put her in a wheelbarrow to push her inside.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
“I have the wheelbarrow and this old blanket ready to go.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Water difficulties are forcing many Cubans to haul the precious resource for long distances, transporting it via wheelbarrows, bicycles, car trunks and even horse-drawn carts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
With the biggest whoppers selling for upwards of £15 a piece, a fun family day out pushing wheelbarrows full of pumpkins can become costly, yet some attractions sell out quickly.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
In Mangwe, the young and the old lined up for food, some with donkey carts to carry home whatever they might get, others with wheelbarrows.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
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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