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
As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
But feel free to award Beltrán a giant wheelbarrow full of them.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Call a wheelbarrow into service as a plant support; sturdy lawn furniture can multi-task as plant support, too.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
So much depends on Williams’s red wheelbarrow, Fitzgerald’s green light at the end of the pier, Melville’s mighty white whale, Kafka’s monstrous vermin, but what exactly?
—Literary Hub, 23 Dec. 2025
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
But feel free to award Beltrán a giant wheelbarrow full of them.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Call a wheelbarrow into service as a plant support; sturdy lawn furniture can multi-task as plant support, too.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
So much depends on Williams’s red wheelbarrow, Fitzgerald’s green light at the end of the pier, Melville’s mighty white whale, Kafka’s monstrous vermin, but what exactly?
—Literary Hub, 23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wheelbarrow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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The family’s history in the apparel industry started in 1910 when Samuel Spiegel and his brother Harry began selling neckwear from a pushcart on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Hours after a deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport in New York, which saw a plane crash into a fire-rescue truck late Sunday night, Los Angeles International Airport firefighters are outlining their own emergency response protocol.—
Nicole Comstock,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Solo Ball landed a second tram spot for the second year in a row, while Braylon Mullins was unanimously selected to the freshman team.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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To reach the structure, visitors had to climb a long set of stairs or ride a private tram up the slope.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Among the crowd of thousands, children could be seen blowing bubbles, playing on the park’s outdoor exercise equipment and being pushed around in strollers and wagons.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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Campspot highlighted the ranch’s creative accommodations and its many one-of-a-kind outdoor experiences including its ranch wagon accommodations, horse feeding and pet friendly cabins.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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But as long as your cart is loaded with whole foods, your diet will be rich in fiber in no time.—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Extra iPads would also need to be purchased for library and computer science use, which require their own carts for scheduling reasons.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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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.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Andrew Ford,
USA TODAY,
11 Sep. 2024
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“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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