Example Sentences

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You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

Finally, at midnight on Aug. 11, the sledges and tractors arrived in a blaze of searchlights and a rumble of engines.

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

In her message, she added: "Note to self: cheap plastic sledges are for sitting in and gently trundling down primary slopes NOT a substitute for a stand up snowboard."

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2018

Elisha thought about abandoning ship and returning to Upernavik, Greenland, but worried that it was too late in the year to try to make the treacherous overland trip on sledges.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock