trundle

verb

Definition of trundlenext
as in to bus

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Recent Examples of trundle After the final course, guests began to trundle off into the balmy evening. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026 Or Canadian geese, which trundle about retention ponds across the Lake County landscape. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 Bethany is trundling through Warsaw with her boyfriend Rob (Will Madden), looking for their Airbnb. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026 Two outreach staffers with PATH, a nonprofit service provider, trundled down the dirt road in an SUV. — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trundle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trundle
  1. bus
  2. cab
  3. motor
  4. ride
  5. sail
  6. navigate
  7. jet
Verb
  • That is a long time to be in the company of the same few dozen people, day after day, flight after flight, from plane to bus to hotel to bus and back again.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • The process has also been slow due to an insufficient number of buses sent by the Malawian government, which has also asked for donations to help bus the returnees home, the officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2026
Definition of bus
Verb
  • The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts.
    — Katherine Koretski, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
Definition of cab
Verb
  • Owen Caissie was hit by a pitch and motored to third on Mack’s single.
    — August 15, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Yoshida began the top of the 10th as the automatic runner on second, but immediately motored to third on a first-pitch sacrifice bunt by Wong and scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly by Seigler.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2026
Definition of motor
Verb
  • The two people who went missing while riding personal watercraft off the coast of Long Beach over the weekend are sharing their stories of survival after they were rescued by first responders.
    — Jeff Nguyen, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • At the 2025 French Open, Loïs Boisson rode her wild card all the way to the semifinals, beating two top-10 players along the way.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of ride
Verb
  • The incident took place earlier this month when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in northeastern Svalbard, around 620 miles from the North Pole.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • However, tankers bound for Asia from the Mediterranean must sail around Africa, adding roughly 25 days to the journey compared with the Bab-el Mandeb route.
    — , CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of sail
Verb
  • Flagship carriers including American, Lufthansa, Riyadh Air and Singapore Airlines are all struggling to navigate the lengthy, multi-year approval process for bespoke cabins.
    — Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Coleman was quick and decisive while navigating the crowded real estate near the line of scrimmage.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of navigate
Verb
  • McDonald remembers working at Goldman Sachs in the 1980s when analysts would jet off to a company's headquarters to collect earnings reports.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Alba and Ramirez jetted off to Europe days after attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of jet

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