as in pushcart
a vehicle with two handles, a large bowl, and usually one wheel that is used for carrying heavy loads of dirt, rocks, etc.
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Recent Examples of wheelbarrow
The storefront, which opened in 1852, supplied early miners with dynamite and Studebaker wheelbarrows.
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Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
That organ was carried in a wheelbarrow to each of the founders’ houses before there was an actual church.
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Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
That includes plant saucers, watering cans, buckets, wheelbarrows, tarps, birdbaths and rain barrels.
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Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes in planters and keep buckets covered or indoors.
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Ryan Brennan
april 30,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for wheelbarrow
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
That organ was carried in a wheelbarrow to each of the founders’ houses before there was an actual church.
—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
That includes plant saucers, watering cans, buckets, wheelbarrows, tarps, birdbaths and rain barrels.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes in planters and keep buckets covered or indoors.
—
Ryan Brennan
april 30,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for wheelbarrow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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The layout opens into the produce section — a nod to the company’s roots, when John Wegman sold fresh produce from a pushcart in Rochester.
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Advertisement Opened in 1936 as the Park Avenue Retail Market, La Marqueta was originally created to bring pushcart vendors under one roof and improve access to fresh food for working-class New Yorkers.
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After the collision, the 18-wheeler hit the center concrete barrier, which caused its cargo, several rolls of paper, estimated to weigh 6,000 pounds each, to fly off the truck, police said, and cross into the eastbound lanes.
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In Tennessee, a pickup truck carrying about 1 million bees overturned near Knoxville in April, unleashing a swarm that blanketed the crash scene.
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The Mass commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of its designer, Gaudí, who died at age 73 three days after he was hit by a tram.
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The Mass commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of its designer, Gaudí, who died at age 73, three days after he was hit by a tram.
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The wagons fell about 5 meters (16 feet) from the bridge, dpa said.
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Walkers and wheelchairs mingled with strollers and wagons where youths were carted around.
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Don’t wait to add these Black Friday-level deals to your cart before the sale is over this week.
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Cell phone video shows the woman confronting longtime street vendor Arabelia Martinez at her hot dog cart at Figueroa and 7th Streets.
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Near the town of Sanquhar, a southwestern Scottish community nestled in verdant countryside, researchers stumbled upon a Bronze Age barrow—the first find of its kind in the area.
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The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
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Dutro specializes in fabricating equipment like hand trucks, carts and dollies, so a vehicular trailer in the hot overland adventure market is a natural extension of its talents.
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Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.
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“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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