trundle
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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
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
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
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
She had learned, with Izzy’s birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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If - and it's a big if - it trundles all the way to the bottom, Andy Burnham might become prime minister.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
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
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
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
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A steady stream of trucks trundled past, sometimes drowning out conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
If, and it was a big if, the marble trundled all the way to the bottom, it was possible to imagine Burnham as prime minister, before this year was out.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
Stocks trundled higher all summer with few interruptions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
They ran and hid in the scrub as the truck trundled on.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
As the train trundled through the darkening fens, Bateson read a copy of de Vries’s paper—and was instantly transmuted by Mendel’s idea of discrete units of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
They struck first in the second half – captain Tevita Ikanivere trundling over – but, from then, the game slipped well below usual Test intensity.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
Rovers currently are trundling on Mars, attempting to learn whether life existed more than three billion years ago when the planet was warmer and wetter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
All the gasoline is going to the war, and few cars come trundling through the school gates; food is delivered by the same withered mule, its ribs showing as it drags its cart.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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