trolley
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It's a song that has become inescapable, whether you're scrolling on TikTok, listening to the radio or even filling up your trolley on the weekly shop.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the southern Athens seaside suburb of Glyfada, a pensioner struggles to cross an avenue with her shopping trolley, zigzagging between cars stuck in traffic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Local attractions—in addition to the architecture—include the surrounding vineyards, trolley rides through the city center, ghost tours, and the annual Danish heritage festival.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The Acme plunged into a ditch in Ohio and was tugged out by a passing trolley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Pittsburgh was made of steel and dreams, and so were her trolley cars.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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In 1916, when the 36-inch pipeline was dropped into the ground along Sunset Boulevard, cars were just beginning to compete with trolleys and horse-drawn wagons in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
"Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible."
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Shoppers push trolleys past shelves stocked with imported French cheeses, wines, cosmetics and bakery products alongside local Kenyan brands.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
I glanced up at the windows of my old office as I biked back toward home, then wove among buses and trolleys on Market Street thinking of how I missed even my commute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Wherever the living gathered, so did the dead, and nowhere more thickly than the Pittsburgh crosstown trolleys.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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“I’m being trolleyed on Twitter,” Edina whines to Saffron, clearly more concerned about her own reputation than the fate of a supermodel she was hoping to use as a cash cow for her PR business.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2016
After the final, as German fans trolleyed pints of Happy until the small hours, residents of Brussels complained to one policeman about the noise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2016
Traditionally, he saws a woman in half, and the boxed halves are trolleyed on-and offstage during a good part of the evening.
From Time Magazine Archive
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James and Margaret had trolleyed over to see Roger and Helen from Glen Point, about three quarters of an hour's ride from Rosemont where the Mortons lived.
From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
On the way back from Ossining, they trolleyed to Dobbs’ Ferry and visited the old Washington Headquarters there.
From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
As for the metallic pepperpot-shaped aliens, created by designer Raymond Cusick, Ms Webb remembers rehearsals with actors "trolleying" around on castors in just the bottom halves of the characters that would become The Doctor's nemesis.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
She has become a familiar trope in film and television, trolleying around with fag ash, drink spilling, hem riding up, and is almost always white.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
Don was for trolleying over to the shore, having a dip in the ocean and returning to school in good time.
From Left Guard Gilbert by Caswell, Edward C.
Greenfield, where the party spent the night, they found to be a pleasant old town with the wide, tree-bordered streets to which they were growing accustomed in this trolleying pilgrimage.
From Ethel Morton at Rose House by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
I'm just trolleying out to father's to see what an evening session will do.
From A Reversible Santa Claus by Nicholson, Meredith
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