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How to use wheelbarrow in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Wheelbarrow means a small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads. Example: “Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.”

Examples of wheelbarrow by meaning

nounA small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.

  • I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • Space for the concrete batching plant was found some little distance down the line, and from here a total of 60 tons of concrete was despatched in a wheelbarrow on a railway trolley.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
  • The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.2022 July 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Fareham Tunnel blockade aids landslip prevention”, in RAIL, number 961, page 32

More sentences with wheelbarrow

  • Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.From the entry token
  • They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.From the entry pile
  • That old wheelbarrow is sound as a dollar.From the entry sound as a dollar
  • This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.From the entry loose
  • He may well need a wheelbarrow to get his swollen undercarriage to training!2011 November 3, “Daggers draw provides chance to hit Bullseye”, in Bath Chronicle. From the entry giggleberries
  • When hyperinflation peaked, wheelbarrows full of money were required to shop for groceries.2004, John Barkley Rosser, Marina V. Rosser, Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, page 236. From the entry hyperinflation
  • Like the whippletree, the wheelbarrow only became known in the Middle Ages.1964, Albert C. Leighton, Early Medieval Transport, page 128. From the entry whippletree
  • Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22. From the entry ruby
  • Habitually munching on narcotic leaves of khat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.2011 May 24, Jay Bahadur, “Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers… we just attack ships'”, in the Guardian. From the entry khat
  • However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of…. From the entry flogging

Meaning of wheelbarrow

  1. noun A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
  2. verb To convey in a wheelbarrow.
  3. verb To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.

Full definition of wheelbarrow

Questions about wheelbarrow in a sentence

How do you use wheelbarrow in a sentence?
Wheelbarrow is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.”
What is a short sentence with wheelbarrow?
“This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.”
What does wheelbarrow mean?
Wheelbarrow means a small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.

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