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trundle

[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

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

I know, I know, they’re adorable, with their wide “eyes” and squat toddler-like determination as they trundle along, pausing in careful recalculation whenever they encounter a curb, street sign, a sidewalk cafe table.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

I knew I’d never spend the money or listen to the radio, and the electric train would never trundle down its tracks in my room.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

And then Kayte usually trundles in, and she’ll offer to tee up some oatmeal.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 2024

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

The wagon trundles down the road that Jackson tells me leads to Nicodemus but I’m in no hurry to follow it.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

He shot pool now and then at the Playboy Mansion, collected guns, dyed his white hair jet-black and trundled out anecdotes of Old Hollywood over three-hour lunches.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

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

Thousands of foreign forces in air-conditioned vehicles trundled through the Sahelian steppe, trying to take out terrorist leaders.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2024

A carriage trundled by on the road and Lentaren stepped out of the way, incidentally brushing up against Denna as he moved.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2024

So we have traveled on, the cries of the sailors above us, Vishnoo trundling between our knees.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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