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.
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of wheelbarrow
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
After Mother Ezumi read off their names, the Sisters in the pine sap detail were sent on their way to load a wheelbarrow up with tapping implements and buckets, collect their student charges, and march off to Mitsuyama.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Baseball hats were propped inside crates next to a wheelbarrow, and inside the historic Mulford Barn, guests were busy stuffing Ralph Lauren Hamptons tote bags with picture-perfect produce and wildflower bouquets, courtesy of Amber Wave Farm.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2025
Highlights are karaoke contest, grapefruit bowling, wheelbarrow races, flapjack toss contest.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for wheelbarrow
Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
After Mother Ezumi read off their names, the Sisters in the pine sap detail were sent on their way to load a wheelbarrow up with tapping implements and buckets, collect their student charges, and march off to Mitsuyama.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Baseball hats were propped inside crates next to a wheelbarrow, and inside the historic Mulford Barn, guests were busy stuffing Ralph Lauren Hamptons tote bags with picture-perfect produce and wildflower bouquets, courtesy of Amber Wave Farm.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2025
Highlights are karaoke contest, grapefruit bowling, wheelbarrow races, flapjack toss contest.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for wheelbarrow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
Noun
-
The two initially sold coffee out of a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass.—
Carl Weiser,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 Sep. 2025
-
Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
Another video showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the truck as emergency workers tried to extinguish the fire.—
Rocío Muñoz-Ledo,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
-
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing rolling back what's known as the endangerment finding, the basis for rules regulating climate pollution, including from coal and gas-fired power plants, cars and trucks, and methane from the oil and gas industry.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
In a statement on Facebook, the Portuguese transport workers’ union announced that the driver of the tram, André Jorge Gonçalves Marques, had died.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
-
An American tourist was reportedly stabbed in the face by a Syrian asylum seeker in Germany while protecting two women being harassed on a tram.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
But by mid-2020, the commissioner appeared to have fallen off the wagon, according to political insiders around him.—
Joey Flechas,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
-
Twenty years later, Volvo revived the V90 wagon for 2017 as a companion to the 2017 Volvo S90 flagship sedan.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
Getting your tiny house is as simple as checking out your Amazon cart and preparing for delivery.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
-
Define success with metrics like revenue per session, cart add rate, search abandonment or shopper engagement.—
Keshav Agrawal,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2024
-
Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2023
Noun
-
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.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Apr. 2025
-
Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.—
Andrew Ford,
USA TODAY,
11 Sep. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share