carting

present participle of cart

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carting So that was wonderful and the next minute the woman, waitress, air hostess, was carting grog down to the Warlps who decided to bring out the boomerangs and there was loud singing of love, then of country, then unfettered crying for Yuendumu, all in Warlpiri, and the grog kept flowing. Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025 Freight traffic stopped in the 1990s and was temporarily replaced by tourist trains carting passengers to the Indiana State Fair. Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025 And for the drivers themselves, carting cargo on America’s highways has been an engine of class mobility—a flexible vocation offering decent pay without the prerequisite of a college education or the daunting prospect of an office-based 9-to-5. Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 Most will never go farther off road than carting beer to a rec league softball game, but some owners want more. Mark Phelan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025 Weary of carting your gear through the airport? Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carting
Verb
  • Major retailers started carrying blue Halloween buckets, including Amazon, Walmart and Target.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a canvas capable of carrying emotional depth, material beauty, and archival quality, allowing works like Mourad’s to be both contemporary and timeless.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO), where they will be deployed about an hour after launch.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Capable of spraying, towing, lifting via a CAT 1 3-point system, and hauling, the Max is built to handle tough terrain and heavy loads across orchards, bedded and row crops, and beyond.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ordinance would prevent a landlord from charging a tenant a separate fee for ferrying trash to its pickup point.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One of the camp counselors was operating the boat ferrying a group of kids to a swimming activity, but the complaint alleged that the counselor was unaware of how many children were on the boat and in the water.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But beyond holding detainees, the sheriff's office doesn't assist ICE in transporting people to new holding locations or airports for deportation.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Mississippi authorities have not disclosed the company involved in transporting the monkeys, where the monkeys were headed or who owns them.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Carting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carting. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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