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

I’m wheeling my bike off it with balletic ease, definitely not annoying my fellow commuters as I lug it down the stairs.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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

A $1,000 bag of silver coins weighs more than 50 pounds, making it cumbersome to lug around.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

She did much of the work, and I was required to lug water from the communal tap, run errands and baby-sit my brother and sister.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Every morning, he lugs a five-gallon water tank into his trailer, and he eats lunch with a group of other founders on the site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 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

Henry lugs out the half barrel for another neighborhood cookout.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

But he grew especially animated when we talked about the small wooden end table we had lugged outside to the backyard for the interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

Nearly 6½ hours before UCLA’s kickoff against Washington, Jamie Hickcox-Baker and Dee Fitzgerald-Cardello lugged a table across the pavement in Lot K, having already unfurled a couple of folding chairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

He banged closed the back of his truck and lugged the last two suitcases—wha-pop!— inside the Emporium to the small office behind the kitchen.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

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

She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

I was sweeping the kitchen floor when Jay came in lugging two peach baskets full of ripe vegetables and plunked them on the table.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce