carting

present participle of cart

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carting The Joyward Jumbo Beach Tote is a $20 floral tote bag from CVS that is spacious enough to hold all of your essentials this summer, whether you’re headed to the beach, jetting off on vacation, or carting your computer to a local coffee shop to log some hours of work. Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 23 June 2026 Four years later, his old friend Paul Rayburn (Bobby Cannavale) arrives to rescue him from himself, carting him down to Rio, where Rayburn is working for a security company on a construction site — there is a presidential election coming, and protests are feared. Robert Lloyd, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026 Four years later, his old friend Paul Rayburn (Bobby Cannavale) arrives to rescue him from himself, carting him down to Rio, where Rayburn is working for a security company on a construction site — there is a presidential election coming, and protests are feared. Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026 Between carting narcotics across the border to Mexico, Rue and Faye (Chloe Cherry) form a close friendship, though Rue hangs on to ties to her past. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026 Mamdani has also spent much of his effort directing New Yorkers’ attention to the nuts and bolts of city government, like filling potholes and enforcing workplace regulations, carting a jumbo calendar to his press conferences across the city to highlight his work in his first stretch of governance. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026 Still, tourists are on board to keep fighting along with local residents, Little said, carting a plastic box of postcards. Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026 My analog gravel bike is great for bikepacking trips, training rides, or a quick pedal to the brewery, but it was never meant for carting cargo or my kid around the city. Erica Zazo, Outside, 27 Mar. 2026 But after the show, someone was carting this sandworm puppet off to be put in the Academy Museum. Robert Zepeda, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carting
Verb
  • The latest in Houston Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to work with three other construction crew members when unmarked vehicles carrying federal agents began following his van, his family said.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • The Nets led by as many as 30 before carrying a 56-34 advantage into the halftime break.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • The Falcon 9's upper stage continued hauling the 21 satellites to LEO.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 July 2026
  • The rocket, which is capable of hauling 16,000 kilograms into low-Earth orbit, is a commercial variant of the Long March 10A vehicle.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • For many people busy ferrying their kids to camp or embarking on vacations, summer is a time to let their TV backlog swell.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
  • With a capacity of 45 passengers, the mésoscaphe, a submarine for shallow to mid-range depths, made more than a thousand dives that summer, ferrying 33,000 ordinary people into the lake’s depths.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • During the demonstration, the robot autonomously handled repetitive pick-and-place operations, transporting items between workstations while adapting to changing object positions.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
  • The bulk of expenses in operating a space station will come not from the facility itself, but safely transporting crew and cargo to the facilities.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

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“Carting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carting. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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