hand truck

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Recent Examples of hand truck This allows a snug fit to the hand truck’s curving back brace. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 The hand truck cart has room for a circular saw, an impact driver, fasteners, accessories, a nail apron and hammer. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023 There are different types of dollies, including one designed for moving appliances; a hand truck made for moving boxes; and a flat floor dolly made for moving furniture. Laura Daily, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022 It’s the old lady in the ankle-length brown overcoat and cheap white sneakers who’s carting apples on a hand truck. Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for hand truck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand truck
Noun
  • For longer distances, the city’s public transportation network is first-rate, and both Google and Apple Maps offer reliable directions, including trams, buses and subway connections.
    Evan Rail, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The 40th annual family-friendly celebration includes a children’s play area, food vendors and picnic tables, and rides for young and old alike on trams, hay wagons, and hot air balloons.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Torching a car dealership’s Ford F-150 truck brings criminal consequences, including jail.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Trump is excluding goods subject to separate, 25% national security tariffs, including steel and aluminum, cars, trucks and auto parts.
    David Lawder, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Historically, shedding pounds garnered an automatic congratulations (see Oprah and her wheelbarrow of fat in 1988, or Valerie Bertinelli’s Jenny Craig ads almost two decades later).
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Vendors on crowded sidewalks hawked shoes, bananas, wallets and bottles of cold water and soda from wheelbarrows.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Like iconic Pacific Northwest coffee brand Starbucks, Dutch Bros also got its start in the uppermost region of the contiguous U.S., founded in 1992 by two brothers and a pushcart in Oregon.
    Sydney Cella, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • It was started in a pushcart on the Lower East Side by my grandfather, Harry Rothman.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The wagon floats start at Bienville and Chartres streets at 10:30am and end at the restaurant.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Really helped pull the wagon at WWE during a transitional period as well.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The next generation of MCG devices, however, are much smaller and self-contained, able to be installed next to a hospital bed or brought to patients on a cart for point-of-care use.
    Jack Hidary, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The nearby flower district is on its last legs (although the hotel nods to it’s legacy with a fresh flower cart).
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Hand truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand%20truck. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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