wheelbarrow
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One early hit was the Ballbarrow: a wheelbarrow that featured a ball instead of a wheel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Store your wheelbarrow inside your shed so rainwater can’t collect.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
"What was really bizarre about this scene was there was not only a young woman barely alive on the sofa, but there was a wheelbarrow in the living room."
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
"I came on Tuesday. I live a 30-minute walk away, and I take the sacks back with that," he said, pointing to the wheelbarrow he acquired for the purpose.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
He ducked under a couple of long metal pipes being carried by two guys, and then stood aside as someone else made their way over a rickety network of wood planks with a wheelbarrow.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
Performers are robed and instruments are carried on ramshackle wheelbarrows, setting up the transitory mood of the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
“It’s being able to take a step back really from football and saying I’m a human first, how can I help other people,” he said after mixing and moving wheelbarrows full of cement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
In Mangwe, the young and the old lined up for food, some with donkey carts to carry home whatever they might get, others with wheelbarrows.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
The gardeners trundled down the hall with wheelbarrows piled high with sawdust.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Groceries are wheelbarrowed to the front door by a deliveryman whose significance you don’t grasp until he turns his back, revealing the red prisoner stripe on his jacket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
The meat is then meticulously divided into portions and wheelbarrowed away by each islander.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2018
He worked as a bellhop at a swanky hotel, wheelbarrowed asphalt and busted up fights as a bouncer at an Irish tavern.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2018
The post office is closed indefinitely, as are the stores except the Big Sur Deli, whose employees wheelbarrowed supplies across the bridge before it closed.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2017
When his $75 ran out, he wangled a $4.20-a-week job wheelbarrowing loads of coal into the university powerhouse, and ashes out of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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