How to Use hand truck in a Sentence
hand truck
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Across a loading dock, a young man pushed a hand truck piled high with boxes of Brazilian mangoes.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
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The market vendors scooped up the goods at Manhattan piers and hauled them the final few blocks to the market with hand trucks.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
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Police said McGregor threw a hand truck at a bus causing minor injury to a person on the bus.
—Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2018
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Everything from altars to statues to paper goods to tea, all of our huge collections, carts and carts full of goods, just wheeling it with a hand truck.
—Eva Hagberg, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
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Late in the morning, a vegetable farmer from Patrick Springs appeared pushing a hand truck stacked with late-season tomatoes.
—Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 21 Feb. 2018
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McGregor threw a hand truck through a bus window and left two fighters injured – and subsequently off that week’s event.
—Mma Junkie Staff, MMA Junkie, 19 Oct. 2019
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McGregor allegedly threw a guard rail and a hand truck at a bus carrying fighters, shattering the windows.
—Dan Gartland, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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Leave it to Master & Dynamic to make a speaker that sounds beautiful, looks fantastic, and has to be moved around your house with a hand truck.
—Adrienne So, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
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The 14-year-old wheeled the cabinet on a hand truck to the front office and put it beside the desk where his grandmother worked as a secretary for the company.
—Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
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He was charged with three counts of assault after he was caught on video throwing a hand truck into a the window of a bus filled with rival UFC fighters.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2018
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Chairs and tables scattered throughout are Frankenstein’d; motorcycle wheels combine with mid-century tabletops, and hand trucks serve as the back to dinette chairs.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
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Jimmy also bought a hand truck and gas can from Home Depot and told investigators those supplies were to use with a pressure washer at his Fort Lauderdale home.
—Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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Two of the fighters were injured by broken glass when McGregor allegedly threw a metal hand truck at the bus’s windows and were forced to withdraw from their bouts on Saturday night.
—Dan Gartland, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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On a cold morning in January 2012, the sixty-year-old bank courier was easing a hand truck loaded with heavy boxes down a slushy ramp behind his company's office in downtown Boston.
—Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
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