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as in wagon
a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling a cart piled up with hay

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verb

as in to carry
to support and take from one place to another carted a knapsack filled with books from class to class

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Recent Examples of cart
Noun
Put together a few games for the kids, or set up a spooky drink cart for an adults-only get-together. Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025 Landscaping crews zipped along cemetery roads around in carts as sprinklers shot water across green lawns. Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Running backs Waymond Jordan and Eli Sanders were both carted off the field at halftime due to apparent injuries, leaving Miller — a walk-on who prepped at Calabasas High School — to take over on the ground. Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025 San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Fred Warner suffered a gruesome ankle injury that led to him getting an air cast and carted off the field against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cart
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Noun
  • The whole world had disappeared to his wife, except the babies on that wagon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The call sheet for the subsequent May 2 scene did not mention Birke, played by Ivens, entering the wagon.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • North also styled her hair in braids like Dionne and carried a small black leather handbag.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This year, a replica of the Seneca Chief, which carried Clinton in 1825, set out from Buffalo on the canal.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a spot that previously housed a portico, an excavator can be seen consolidating the rubble to be hauled away.
    Thomas Bordeaux, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • David and Daryl drove tractors hauling children to the pumpkin patches.
    Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Wisconsin State Patrol trooper detected signs of impairment related to drug use, administered field sobriety tests and then arrested and transported him to a hospital for a legal blood draw, according to the release.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Under Georgian law, buying, transporting or selling nuclear or radioactive material is punishable by up to five years in prison and seizing a nuclear material can lead to a sentence of up to 10 years.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Tuesday launched a new ultrafast delivery service in the United Arab Emirates that can ferry groceries, cosmetics, electronics and other household items to shoppers in 15 minutes or less.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The police had found evidence not only of a network ferrying cocaine from South America to European ports but also of a sophisticated money-laundering organization worth hundreds of millions of euros—an enterprise rivalling the narcotics business in its size.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Common oversights include everything from not packing a universal adapter to lacking the right outfit for events like high tea or a night out at the theater.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Epstein attributes the hill’s popularity to the fans COTA attracts, drawing a comparison to the fans that pack mountainsides and hilly areas during the Tour de France cycling race each July.
    Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Flick will not back down from his high-line philosophy as squeezing up the pitch allows Barcelona to dominate territory and bring their technically gifted players closer to goal.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Still, experts like Taylor note that companies’ own financial interests may bring some of that into question.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cart. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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