lugging

Example Sentences

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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

In Fiorito, neighbors come and go to "Diego's house," as they call it, lugging containers which volunteers fill with chicken stew or other meals cooked in giant cauldrons in the yard.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Who was that old man, the director wondered, who shuffled in lugging 10 times as many photos as anyone else?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Now, he's working on a two-legged version that will require even more responsive legs to keep its balance while lugging Bruton around.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Then Oz and Jak returned, lugging a bag of smooth white stones from the tide pools, and passed them around so that each had a rock to paint on.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder