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[truhn-dl] / ˈtrʌn dl /










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Private vehicles distribute everything from water and food to toilet paper and soap, while trucks belonging to the World Central Kitchen NGO trundle through the coastal city.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I could have slept several more people in mine, because it included a pull-out couch and trundle bed in addition to the king-size bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Stocks trading outside of the U.S. mostly continued to trundle higher in February, with big gains particularly in the South Korean market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

In the legendary 1939 film “The Women,” New York wives trundle off to Reno, where a six-week residency law lets them divorce their wayward husbands and return home free.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024

Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Inevitably, such an anniversary will have some worrying that the bull is showing signs of age, with chances of its demise increasing as it trundles on.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

The six-wheeled, solar-powered rover will rely on the Vikram lander to maintain communications with Earth as it trundles around the landing region for 14 Earth days—or about one period of lunar daylight.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023

He is as fat as a hamster in winter, but he trundles his pots when it comes to that right up to the very front-line.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

A steady stream of trucks trundled past, sometimes drowning out conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Stocks trundled higher all summer with few interruptions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

As we talked a train trundled westwards over the river, heading to Prague's Smichov station, and from there onwards to Karlovy Vary, Pilsen or Germany.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

They ran and hid in the scrub as the truck trundled on.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

He unscrewed the hose and turned the wheelbarrow over and trundled it across the floor and back.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

One could preen virtuously after trundling to a local boutique instead of ordering from a faraway online behemoth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Euphemistically known as “mobile lounges,” these hulking, 40-ton machines from the 1960s and ’70s look and feel like paramilitary vehicles trundling through a desert dystopia.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Buses are infrequent and haphazard, while the subway has only six trundling lines radiating out from the centre, making connections impossible without going all the way in and then all the way out again.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

As a child, Plant recalls trundling in his family’s car through interesting, evocative landscapes and, “Misty Mountains that actually were misty mountains,” he says, making another of his not-infrequent Zeppelin asides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Now, as race time approached, sales representatives were trundling the last few radios ordered the night before into Seattle homes and setting them up.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown


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