wheelbarrow
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But some aspects of his account didn't add up, such as why he had used a wheelbarrow to get her back into the house and waited 14 hours to call an ambulance.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
On the following day, Williams honored her sports skills by hosting volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races, and pickleball games.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
It’s like something you would see on a wheelbarrow, and then it’s got two things on each side of that wheel that you strap your feet into.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
They started walking the trailer into the gym like a huge wheelbarrow.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
For every car washed, the workers walk 2km, carrying heavy water containers in wheelbarrows every time.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Items such as wheelbarrows or watering cans can collect rainfall, creating potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Just before noon, when we would break for lunch, we would pile the lime into wheelbarrows and cart it over to the truck, which would take it away.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
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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