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
  • 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
  • Eventually, Flores and Álvarez motored to the rendezvous point, where there was no sign of the Fiorella, or of the other skiff.
    — Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Definition of motor
Verb
  • He has been charged with leading MLS in riding the wave that the 2026 FIFA World Cup created.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The incident coincided with the first time Aisha was riding in the front seat.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of ride
Verb
  • The lake is praised for its mountain views and few crowds, and has an expansive area to sail around.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Yacht tracking data provided to CNBC from VesselFinder shows that after the auction, Amadea sailed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of sail
Verb
  • These positions overlap on evaluations and incident reporting but diverge sharply on preemption, open weights and who gets to test, which is exactly the terrain the administration's June executive order is now navigating.
    — Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The signals successfully navigated sharp turns and narrow bottlenecks without reflecting backward or leaking into neighboring channels.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of navigate
Verb
  • In December 2021, a 15-year-old girl suffered second- and third-degree burns over 22% of her body when the flames jetted across the kitchen island from a tabletop fire pit smores maker.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • One of the most charming performances in a show that has many of them comes from Bo Bragason as Oona, a bubbly lesbian flirt whose mom has jetted off to India, leaving her in charge of her little sister (Mabel Strachan) and their houseboat.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of jet

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