trolley
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At one point, Sophie said she realised she had not eaten for about 28 hours and remembered seeing a food trolley being brought round to mums on the ward.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Jamie McCart then became detached from his trolley and Celtic scored from that error, too.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“I love every single one,” said the 51-year-old, who stores them in a silver airline service trolley he bought at auction for a few hundred euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
As the sirens screamed again at the central market in Boryspil, Dmyterko pushed her own shopping trolley without looking up.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The trolley continued on its way, but every time Ophie glanced through her eyelashes at her mother she could sense the older woman was awake and looking at her, worried.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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He’s since ordered two more trolleys, one for pajamas and the other for more amenity kits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
Footage shown on local media shows passengers on medical trolleys near Bekasi Timur Station, with other images showing rescuers trying to free people from the train wreckage.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
In the early 20th century, Woods continued to innovate, developing overhead conducting systems that allowed electric streetcars and trolleys to replace steam power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Amongst the hustle and bustle, two large cages rattle on top of two laden trolleys.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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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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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 Lillian Elizabeth Roy
"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle.
From You Can Search Me by Hugh McHugh
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 Edward C. Caswell
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 Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
I'm just trolleying out to father's to see what an evening session will do.
From A Reversible Santa Claus by Meredith Nicholson
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