[
UK
/tɹˈʌndəl/
]
[ US /ˈtɹəndəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹəndəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- small wheel or roller
VERB
-
move heavily
the streetcar trundled down the avenue
How To Use trundle In A Sentence
- Driving full throttle on his wheel rims, he trundled back to Augusta at 30 mph and meandered through downtown, trailed by a posse of 14 cruisers.
- If only she would just trundle around in her old caravan rather than inflict her incompetence on the rest of us. The Sun
- Five million visitors trundle into the Grand Canyon every year, but they make little impact.
- I fretted as we trundled slowly home in a rather despondent way.
- However, when lorries trundled past the snakes would be shaken off the branches and often smashed through the windscreens of cars because of their hard heads.
- Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- It trundled along those terrifying streets so slowly it was horrible. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
- A wagon trundled up the road.
- Matthew had acquired a tank which trundled over the carpet emitting small but sharp percussive explosions accompanied by a shower of sparks.
- The train eventually trundled in at 7.54.