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
"I've learned how to do everything with one leg, except to be able to use a wheelbarrow," said Williams with a wry smile.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
He found a wheelbarrow and pulled it out and tipped it over and turned the wheel slowly, examining the tire.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
Simon Sargent, defending, said Pugh had been out drinking and was on his way home when he noticed the mixer and the wheelbarrows by the side of the road.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
“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
Inside, workers collected debris in wheelbarrows, their faces blackened by floating dust.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The rocks were heavy and rough, and we were given no wheelbarrows or gloves.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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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