cart
noun
a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
were carting
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past progressiveof cart.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By the time the giveaway event arrived, volunteers were carting truckloads of items to a church in Falls Church.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2022
Throughout the weekend, disaster specialist AshBritt Inc, DRC Emergency Services and waste haulers, including Waste Management and municipal crews brought to Houston, were carting Harvey’s rubble to dozens of Texas landfills.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2017
“If they were carting you around and using you to explain the rehab program, then why...?”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Harry, otherwise “Swipes” Morton, was convoying four laboring and perspiring freshmen who were carting over the campus a big box that had ones contained a piano.
From Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery by Roy Eliot Stokes
