Example Sentences

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Duchamp clambered into a taxi, packed up his canvas and lugged it home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 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

Potatoes would arrive in huge wooden crates and have to be lugged up from the cellar.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

DNC officials lugged large garbage bags packed with signs — their handles sticking out of the bags — to the top edges of the arena.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

Otto shifted on my back as I lugged the bike over furrows and puddles.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer