Example sentences for: lugging

How can you use “lugging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The act of gardening itself was joyous--rising early, smelling earth, getting dirty, getting scratches that I wore proudly, making compost, lugging, digging, and planting.

  • Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.

  • An Iraqi officer trying to escape from the smoke-filled bunker with a huge pile of blue jeans isn't so different from the Americans lugging bullion in Louis Vuitton bags.

  • Arriving with many bags that required anxious waiting, lugging, and shoving, I found myself wishing that modern clothing habits were a bit more Homeric.

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.


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