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trundle

[truhn-dl] / ˈtrʌn dl /










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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

Fortunately, for anybody who bought ahead of Friday’s pullback, there is reason to believe stocks could trundle higher in the short term.

From MarketWatch May 17, 2026

As hungry birds of prey circle above, hundreds of garbage trucks trundle through the town below, leaving trails of rubbish in their wake.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Trucks and cars trundle past, weighed down with people's belongings.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2025

All we know is that at some point, at uncertain intervals, they trundle across the road down which we are cruising at sixty-six thousand miles an hour.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

A self-proclaimed orange army trundles through the streets and dunes, propelled by pedal power and the prospect of seeing homegrown hero Max Verstappen in action.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2023

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

Stuffed with bugs, frogs, snakes and silly costumes, it trundles along smoothly enough as Robert learns that his likeness has popped up in multiple paintings, once in a Confederate uniform.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2022

Zo drops her strawberry and trundles forward to the edge of Sophia's voluminous gown.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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 a deep area of low pressure trundled north-westwards across the UK, once again the rain gauges filled and roads and rivers flooded.

From BBC May 23, 2024

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

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2024

Beside her, casks of wine, bales of sourleaf, and pallets of striped hides were being trundled up the gangplank onto the Bride in Azure, to sail on the evening tide.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Over the summer, locals noticed tankers in the traffic trundling through Tangley toward Conholt.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2025

I was more than a little smug, trundling down the hill, helping to maneuver the weight of a full-grown buck on the travois we’d strapped together out of branches and sinew.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline




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