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• Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?From the entry duff
• Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?From the entry break
• Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.From the entry bash
• Wheel that trolley over here, would you?From the entry wheel
• The bus journey took forever, with old dears with their shopping trolleys getting on and off at every stop.From the entry old dear
• Tim is told off for trying to smuggle Dad a 'snorker' (sausage) from the catering trolley.2022, Emily Bevan, The Diary of Losing Dad, page 15. From the entry snorker
• The trolley service is basic, but they have a pre-ordering service.2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “RAIL Supplement: Reimagining and rebooting the passenger railway”, in RAIL, number 952, page 7 (supplement). From the entry pre-ordering
• By the late ‘90s, trolley problems had fallen out of fashion.2015 October 9, Lauren Cassani Davis, “Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry trolley problem
• Bringin up the rear, a girl about my age pedals a three-tire trolley.2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry boarback
• This was Suttree's trolley token, the one that mercied him, the one that froze him to death.2010, Peter Josyph, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry mercy
• Years before airconditioning, the breezers, which were open on all sides, gave trolley customers naturally cool air.2010, Sayre Historical Society, Sayre. From the entry breezer
• This was on sale exclusively from the duty-free trolley on Continental Airlines.2008, New Scientist and Science Journal - Volume 199, Issues 2663-2670. From the entry liquid oxygen
• “Must be a nasty one.” We slurped our soda and ran for the trolley.2007, Flora Ann Scearce, Cotton Mill Girl, page 118. From the entry alarmer
• Fay Li clicks her fingers, and the dessert trolley is already on its way.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry sherbet
• I'm pushing the trolley down an aisle in which there are a dozen ladies gasbagging.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 146. From the entry gasbag
• Well, Steverino, this looks like where I get off and join another trolley.1990, Odie Hawkins, Great Lawd Buddha, page 85. From the entry Steverino
• Peters, Alfred Morrison, section foreman along with his helper, Frank Lindloft, took off with the pump trolley.1976, J. William Calder, All Aboard, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 118. From the entry pump trolley
• Sail-propelled trolley used by lifeboatmen for traversing the Spurn Head Railway.1940 December, “The Spurn Head Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 655, photo caption. From the entry lifeboatman
• A gang was sent out on a pump trolley and the inspection car followed.1910 March 4, “Supply Trade Section: Fairbanks-Morse Inspection Car”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 48, number 9, page 509. From the entry pump trolley
• I got the vial of midazolam out of the crash trolley and squeezed the contents into the patientʼs mouth.2020, Dr Amir Khan, The Doctor Will See You Now, Ebury Press (2021), page 127. From the entry midazolam
• Shirley calmly looked into the trolley and said, “Oh for Christ’s sake – it’s just a pair of ginch!”2012 July 14, Sandi Bezanson-Chan, “Summer Jobs Series: Learning to handle 'ginch' in the hotel laundry”, in National Post. From the entry ginch
• There was plenty to remember, but just then a trolley rattled in, pushed by a wiry wardsmaid in a pink uniform.2008, Rose Moxham, Teeth Marks, page 7. From the entry wardsmaid
• The Pacific electric red car tracks ran through the area, and the local trolley became known as the Toonerville trolley.2007, John H. Davis, What Do White Americans Want to Know about Black Americans But Are Afraid to Ask, Xlibris, page 86. From the entry Toonerville Trolley
• She froze, turned white and made the long fall, straight down, face first into a banquet trolley of half-eaten food scraps.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 11. From the entry banquet trolley
• Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?1971 Oct. 11, Stefan Kanfer, "Cinema: Senescent Saint" (film review of Kotch), Time (retrieved 7 June 2014). From the entry laughing academy
• The cool air of the supermarket prickled the back of her neck as she grabbed a trolley and manoeuvred it down the aisles.2024 December 3, Leesa Ronald, “Chapter 3”, in Special Delivery, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN. From the entry airgasm
• What I began to notice is it's the little things that define who we are, like the groceries we put into our shopping trollies.2020, Renée Hollis, “A Work in Progress”, in Struggle and Success: True Stories That Reveal the Depths of the Human Experience, volume 3…. From the entry cheesymite
• Overhead construction was catenary rather than a single wire to allow the use of pantographs instead of trolley poles so that speeds could be higher.2009, Jan Young, Studebaker and the Railroads, volume 2, page 47. From the entry catenary
• Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 140. From the entry bung
• Antique trolleys, too, are in the plan: regular excursions in the picturesque "breezers" would take visitors across Belle Isle and through James park.1971, The Commonwealth - Volume 38, page 8. From the entry breezer
• This efficient assembly is mounted on anti-vibration points, and handlocks enable the trolley to be rigidly fixed in pre-set and intermediate focusing positions.1958, The British Journal of Photography Annual, page 368. From the entry handlock
• Current collection is by trolley pole with fixed head, and the locomotive is equipped with hand brake, electric headlights and a warning bell.1957 December, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871. From the entry trolley pole
• Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley.1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711. From the entry fall out
• During my tea round I was called away from my trolley by Bertie Lamptey, a car salesman who was in to have his kidney stones out that afternoon.2014, Sarah Beeson, The New Arrival: Part 2 of 3. From the entry taters in the mould
• Happy grinned broadly, entirely unmoved, put his feet up on the opposite seat, and made a pig of himself with free food and drink from the complimentary trolley.2012, Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Dream, Ace Books, published 2012, →ISBN. From the entry make a pig of oneself
• A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts.2005, Carole Matthews, You Drive Me Crazy, →ISBN. From the entry furtle
• Older trolley drivers also developed urinary problems and some had to resort to “the motorman's friend," a urine collection tube and bottle that was strapped to the leg.1989, Joshua Benjamin Freeman, In Transit, page 14. From the entry motorman's friend
• Carl Aster turned from the registration desk at the Sheraton Centre yesterday and saw an agreeable man stacking his load of packing cases on a baggage trolley.1985 June 3, Jane Gross, “Guests Find a New Kind of Bellhop at Hotels During a Strike”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry aster
• And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines.1966, Ray Bradbury, “The Trolley”, in S Is for Space, London: Granada Publishing, published 1983, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry shimmery

Meaning of trolley

1. noun A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
2. noun A streetcar or light train.
3. noun A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

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How do you use trolley in a sentence?

Trolley is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?”

What is a short sentence with trolley?

“Wheel that trolley over here, would you?”

What does trolley mean?

Trolley means a trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.