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Example sentences for "lugging"

Lexicographically close words:
luge; luggage; lugged; lugger; luggers; lugs; lugsail; lugubrious; lugubriously; lui
  1. This was not only a saving in long walks for many, but also took from a young back, that hard, tiring strain from lugging such armfuls of books as you find pupils laboriously carrying, today.

  2. Lugging the baby to the window, she scrambled over the sill.

  3. At lugging ledgers I am among the also-rans--a mere cipher.

  4. There is too much ledger-lugging to be done for my simple tastes.

  5. I'll make him sweat as much lugging me up to date as I had to perspire in the old days to illuminate things for Pa.

  6. I've a feeling I could eat rubber hose and call it sweet, And me hands is warped from lugging bits of track.

  7. For a man whose most violent exercise consisted of lugging books off a top shelf, and who had learned all he knew about football from the Literary Pepsin or the Bi-Weekly Review, he got onto the game in wonderful style.

  8. Now I never was a diplomat, and the job of lugging a fat old foreigner around a dead college town at night and trying to make him think he was in peril of his life every minute was about three numbers larger than my size.

  9. She came indignant, not because she had come lugging a heavy hod of coal and a great arm-load of wood, but because her sense of fitness was outraged by the strange demand.

  10. This was working under difficulties, and Virgie, who had followed close after, proudly lugging his spade, soon returned.

  11. Having fumbled inside the cart, away limped Harry, and returned lugging the bale of gunny sacks.

  12. You see them in the lanes, and on the skirts of woods and commons, lugging a baby about, when it sometimes weighs half as much as the nurse.

  13. Presently two soldiers following a young man in civilian dress come forward lugging a little green painted iron safe, and this, with a swing and a thud, they deposit in the wagon.

  14. Willie Sunday never got hump-shouldered lugging them home, I can tell you.

  15. If he had the feet of some of you he would make you wear out shoe leather lugging back what you've taken that doesn't belong to you.

  16. First thing I saw you were lugging her off across the field.

  17. Yep," replied the boy, lugging out the flour-bag.

  18. Colin had a flower garden about a foot square in front, that he tended very careful, lugging water from the creek to keep it growing.

  19. In one way, poor old Burton, lugging himself into the game by the scruff of his pants, showed more real man than I did.

  20. On the following day, lugging an enormous bundle under each arm, the Poet came.

  21. Here, the ploughman comes, carrying his long plough and goad on his shoulder, and with him his wife lugging the yoke and his boy leading the oxen.

  22. Belle-Ann and Lem then made the rounds of the place, followed by little Buddy, lugging his father's rifle.

  23. Cautiously a small shape with wizened face slid from out the mystic shadows, lugging a rifle twice his length.

  24. She would need to be a lusty Amazon, Prather, if she took the contract of lugging me about.

  25. Besides putting on the hood, I mean, and lugging round the cakes for tea, in English novels.

  26. She was piling about him a few articles of furniture which she was lugging out of their home; that house was the upper part of a schooner's cabin--something the sea had cast up on Hue and Cry.

  27. While he was rubbing feeling back into his stiffened limbs, sitting there in the lee alley, the cook came lugging a pot of hot coffee and a plate heaped with food.

  28. The second mate came to the engine-room, lugging the sounding-rod to the light in order to examine the smear on its freshly chalked length.

  29. Lugging rocks would work up a sweat, and it was chilly underground.

  30. They were lugging bags of powdered carnotite and spreading it around the fields when Belsely saw them!

  31. The farther I walked through the dust of this accursed road, lugging my suit-case as you are doing now, the surer I was that I'd get rid of the poet without mercy.

  32. Think of lugging all those dishes outdoors this hot night, and then lugging 'em all in again--and they all dressed out in flowered muslins!

  33. I told her it was not I that broke her window, but it did not signify; so she dragged me to the light, lugging and scratching me all the while, and then said she would inform against me.

  34. But after running a little way I stumbled over something that lay in the road, and before I could get up again she overtook me, and caught me by the hair, and began lugging and cuffing me.

  35. Thus, having taken pepper in the nose, he was lugging out his sword, but, alas!

  36. He was going on as I came out of my front door, lugging my treasures, done up in a tablecloth.

  37. I guess if he'd been lugging such a fortune around it would have been heavy," added Joe, with laughter.

  38. I was running down to the railroad station to meet my married sister and her kids--they were coming over for Christmas dinner--and I saw Neale lugging his satchel and legging it for the station.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lugging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    airlift; bearing; carriage; carry; carrying; conveyance; freight; hauling; packing; portage; shipment; shipping; transport; transportation; transshipment; waft