trolley
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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
"In the past, you'd see sellers bringing them in by the trolley load, with crowds gathered around," she says.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Steeling myself against the creep of self-consciousness, I walked briskly to the trolley stop.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
The company advised festival-goers travelling by train to only pack what they can comfortably carry and said luggage trolleys will not be permitted on services.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Known as "corridor care", patients are lining up on trolleys or sitting on chairs, stuck in A&E because there are no beds for them in the wards.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
On a recent weekday afternoon, delivery men dragged trolleys stacked with bundles of returned clothing through the halls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The fitful, ghost-powered trolleys were always making unexpected turns, shut- ding her off into unknown parts of the city.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
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)
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
I'm just trolleying out to father's to see what an evening session will do.
From A Reversible Santa Claus by Nicholson, Meredith
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)
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