Example Sentences

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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And so I started to go through my mother’s papers, the journals and letters and articles and unpublished manuscripts, the unopened boxes I had lugged from New York to San Francisco after I got married.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

One of his friends had lugged a couch into the dorm, only to have to drag it back out.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

There was Frank Sinatra’s voice wafting Christmas carols from the stereo we had lugged from home.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2012

In a flash Basil had lugged a haversack from the undergrowth and was spreading a repast on the grass between them.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques