mules
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Here are five mules pulling this century along:
I had been enamored of this view since 1962, when I first drove to the end of Highway 190 in Quaking Aspen to begin my summer job packing mules into the Sierra backcountry.
From Los Angeles Times
From there, smaller vehicles navigate over rough terrain before porters and mules haul baskets on the final stretch, up to 20,000 feet above sea level.
On any given day scammers employ 400 to 500 of the mules.
“These horses obviously, or mules in this case, are no match for it.”
From Los Angeles Times
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