lug

Most people would vouch for specific items, such as a spare tire or a lug wrench, if they had limited choices on what to keep in their car every day.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

They then lug heavy loads back home, spreading the seaweed out on the ground and snipping off residue.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Encampment residents lug their bags onto a bus and head to their destinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

Many people over the years have recommended that I get an e-reader so I don’t have to lug around books in my suitcase.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026

They lug the bags half a mile up a hill.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Hauge Sin lugs bottles of Chinese wine onto the subway to pour samples for stone-faced sommeliers and restaurant wine buyers, who sometimes come back with an order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sergei Loznitsa’s Stalin-era drama “Two Prosecutors” lugs its own protagonist along that exact same journey; it’s affixed to cynicism like a train on a track.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025

The lugs and heroes and bums all change, but not the narrative.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Infrastructure also plays a role, with leaks plaguing the network that lugs water up to and across Mexico's high-altitude capital.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

Which means that unless an HLA lugs an invading virus to where the leukocyte can notice it, that part of the immune system cannot know it exists, let alone attack it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Inventory had to be lugged up a flight of stairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

A devout Catholic, Becerra Moran owned a five-pound statuette of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which took up most of the space in the battered suitcase that she lugged around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

Potatoes would arrive in huge wooden crates and have to be lugged up from the cellar.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

I whispered to Grandma as I lugged the hamper past her.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The crib was smaller than what our son is used to and nobody slept all that well, but it beat lugging one along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Groups of all ages converged on the city centre to the sound of drums and guitars, with hardy pilgrims lugging rucksacks and camping material on their backs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Before Cat could stop him, he was unzipping his bag and lugging out his shark encyclopedia.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn