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
One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
The following 1,500 years saw the outpouring of Chinese technological inventions, mentioned in Chapter 13, that included paper, the compass, the wheelbarrow, and gunpowder.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Water difficulties are forcing many Cubans to haul the precious resource for long distances, transporting it via wheelbarrows, bicycles, car trunks and even horse-drawn carts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
David Matthew Pugh, from Llainwen Isaf in Llanberis, Gwynedd, admitted to taking a cement mixer and two wheelbarrows in the middle of the night on 5 December.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
It was backbreaking work: digging out a level patch of earth, hauling rocks in wheelbarrows, hammering boards in place.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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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
"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
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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