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trundle

[ UK /tɹˈʌndə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹəndəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
  2. small wheel or roller
VERB
  1. 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.
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