mules
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The flights are filled with an army of Cuban-American “mules” hauling huge bags that are closely inspected by Cuban customs officers.
He raised prize-winning mules there, and it would take a mule to get down the steep rocky trail to his place.
From Literature
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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.
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