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
  • It’s been a long five years since Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car rode a rave of critical support to a Best Picture nomination off of miniscule box-office tallies.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Symone will play Jojo Calhoun, who is the brazen and creative younger sister of Julius (Mitchell), a local bull riding star and talented barrel racer.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of ride
Verb
  • David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia had already reported results that sailed past estimates by the time CFO Colette Kress came into the earnings call with a stunning forecast for next year.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Milton, though, was flushed from the pocket, and a late throw to Brown sailed out of bounds.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of sail
Verb
  • The groundswell of support has been echoed by women across the nation who have seen some of their own experiences reflected in Clancy’s descriptions of her postpartum mental health struggles and difficulty navigating the system to get help.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The second was a plus-maze task in which the mouse learns to navigate its way to a reward.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of navigate
Verb
  • And by the looks of the first photos (below), Emily seems to be jetting off to meet her on-again, off-again chef boyfriend Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), picking up where season five left off.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
  • And the entire team took the field on fumes after jetting across the country and landing early Monday morning following a three-game drubbing in Boston over the weekend.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of jet

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“Trundle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trundle. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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