lug
verb (used with object)
to pull or carry with force or effort.
had lugged
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past perfectof lug.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But he grew especially animated when we talked about the small wooden end table we had lugged outside to the backyard for the interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
First he played a portable keyboard he had lugged with him to the hospital, then the cello and finally the violin, turning a drab hospital room into a concert hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
And so I started to go through my mother’s papers, the journals and letters and articles and unpublished manuscripts, the unopened boxes I had lugged from New York to San Francisco after I got married.
From Slate ● May 6, 2021
But Harry had lugged in a woodstove, and it was at least warm and dry inside.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
