lug
verb (used with object)
to pull or carry with force or effort.
is lugging
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present progressiveof lug (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"This looting doesn’t involve smashed display cases, it doesn’t have a mob scooping up handbags. And no one is lugging out big-screen TVs," Bruce said on "Fox News Primetime."
From Fox News ● Dec. 7, 2021
Some days her youngest daughter is lugging her cello.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016
He's about to jump on the train and is lugging a holdall, a Daunt Books tote, a guitar case patched up with duct tape, so we get straight to it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2013
One is lugging a framed mirror, the other a painting.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
And you can't be very formal with any one who is lugging you through the snow.'
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William
