hand truck

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Recent Examples of hand truck Note that the top platform fits to the curving back of the hand truck by means of two quick cuts at 45-degrees that remove the back corners of the platform. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 This allows a snug fit to the hand truck’s curving back brace. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 The hand truck cart has room for a circular saw, an impact driver, fasteners, accessories, a nail apron and hammer. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 There are different types of dollies, including one designed for moving appliances; a hand truck made for moving boxes; and a flat floor dolly made for moving furniture. Laura Daily, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for hand truck
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Noun
  • Lisbon climbs hills with mosaic-tiled façades, rattling vintage trams, and panoramic viewpoints glowing at dusk over terracotta rooftops.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Several days a week, a tram departs from the visitor center for a ride into the wilds of False Cape State Park.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The potential witness told investigators that Castillo came to her door with the grapes and that Geter-Pataky was in a pick-up truck and waved to her.
    Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
  • As the truck was coming to a stop, a passenger in the front seat got out and ran from the vehicle, which stopped a short distance later.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Still, consider packing light or using one of the on-site wheelbarrows to lug your camping supplies up the fairly steep quarter-mile or so to where the campsites are spread.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The video, posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Aug. 5, captures the bear, River, flipping over the wheelbarrow left in his habitat as enrichment before attempting to fit his entire body into the yellow carrier.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The beloved East Coast grocery chain began with two brothers selling produce from a pushcart in 1916; now fourth-gen CEO Colleen Wegman has expanded it beyond 100 locations.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • Joan scrambled to dump the pushcart of her possessions into a Coney Island trash can on the beach off the boardwalk way down from her building so her landlord wouldn’t see.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Demonstrations against Willis wagons were a precursor to a more sweeping Civil Rights Movement in Chicago that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city in 1966 — the same year Willis resigned.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Like the Gregory, this wagon has hard plastic wheels.
    Chris Haslam, Wired News, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Customers must agree to keep their delivery area clear of people and pets The Walmart app alerts a customer when their cart reaches the drone delivery weight and volume limits.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Ahead, Schroeder dishes how to do just that, and reveals the best pizza toppings to pair with street cart onion sauce.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025

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