lug
verb (used with object)
to pull or carry with force or effort.
has lugged
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present perfectof lug (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Adeline lays out a breadcrumb trail that eventually reveals that Sonny has lugged some especially heavy personal baggage to Sanctuary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
And they will forget that 35 years ago, she was also a child—except that she has lugged this around on her back for decades and only got brave enough to tell anyone six years ago.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2018
Terkel, a tireless 72, has lugged his tape machine cross-country and abroad to record memories of World War II, "the good war."
From Time Magazine Archive
Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has lugged me to the brink of engaging to a newspaper, and has suggested to me for a first plan the forgery of a supposed manuscript of Burton the anatomist of melancholy.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
