Example Sentences

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Over the last week, search-and-rescue teams have lugged more than 3 million pounds of concrete from the rubble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2021

All season long the team’s relief pitchers have lugged jugs of kerosene to the mound.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019

Dale and Bev McKnight, 85 and 79, respectively, have lugged it around for decades.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2018

He said the press was also swayed by the possibility of America electing its first black President, who could get the country "past the old racial baggage we have lugged around for so many years."

From Time Magazine Archive

‘We have lugged up your blankets as well as our own. Strider has hidden all the rest of our baggage in a deep drift of leaves.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien