wheelbarrow
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A neighbour even helped him put her in a wheelbarrow to push her inside.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
On the following day, Williams honored her sports skills by hosting volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races, and pickleball games.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
It’s like something you would see on a wheelbarrow, and then it’s got two things on each side of that wheel that you strap your feet into.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
That night about first dark, he and I lifted the cage onto a wheelbarrow, covered it good with the croker sacks, and wheeled it around the house through the pecan grove.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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
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
The sides, where the metal ceiling curved down to the cement floor, were jammed with wooden crates, sprinkler heads, wheelbarrows, and all kinds of equipment.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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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