lug
verb (used with object)
to pull or carry with force or effort.
lugged
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past participleof lug.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof lug.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
lugverb (used with object)to pull or carry with force or effort.
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
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
I lugged the jumbo plastic carrier meant for a twenty-pound dog to an empty corner and set it on the tiled floor.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
