barrow

Example Sentences

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"Is that a marrow on your barrow, Clara?"

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred in an enormous barrow on the island of Leka, which is just off the country’s northern coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Aged 15, he was selling mobile phone accessories from a barrow in the capital Lagos and sending money home.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023

Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

He waited a moment, and then he touched his cap and went off trundling his barrow.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier