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wheelbarrow

[hweel-bar-oh, weel-] / ˈʰwilˌbær oʊ, ˈwil- /


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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

It continued in both domestic and competitive forms with the help of the wheelbarrow, which arrived in the Middle Ages, presumably along with feudalism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Chickens white beside standing water rain, with glazed wheelbarrow.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Producers said the equipment, including a cement mixer and wheelbarrows, had been fitted with tracking devices and was recovered by police on Sunday.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

With pickaxes and wheelbarrows, dozens of Palestinian workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests are clearing rubble from the ruins of the Gaza Strip's oldest and largest mosque.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 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

They were of very different sizes, some no bigger than mole- hills, some as big as wheelbarrows, two the size of cottages.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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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