How To Use Wheelbarrow In A Sentence

  • In a moment," Eric said, "the wheelbarrow got bowsed over, when I managed, worse luck, to fall underneath; and then, finding I couldn't get up again, I hailed you, brother. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • A wheelbarrow pusher can complete a return journey of 30 m in each direction whilst a shoveller is filling a 50-litre barrow. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
  • Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow.
  • Each in turns fills a wheelbarrow and then with great effort pushes it to where the other man is digging, and empties it. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Today's modern carts come in different forms; barrow, hand truck, wagon, wheelbarrow, push cart, handbarrow, handcart or gurney.
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  • I was on herrick 8/9 and carried belt kit and a daysack. it my belt kit i carried ammo, bowman and FFD's In the daysack i had more ammo spare batteries water Time for the Assault Wheelbarrow (tm, patent pending)? Army Rumour Service
  • Workers in bright-yellow hard hats are beavering away, moving bucketloads of stones in wheelbarrows and trying to clear a pile of rubble with a digger.
  • A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower.
  • Old gardening boots, wheelbarrows, and toolboxes can make whimsical substitutes for expensive outdoor containers.
  • To allow room for a wheelbarrow or garden cart, plan on 2-to 3-foot-wide walkways.
  • I let the stuff glop into the pail I was given to store it in until I came down the ladder to put it in the wheelbarrow.
  • Before that we have a fancy-dress wheelbarrow race: one person sits in the barrow while the other pushes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Splitting into a wheelbarrow or trailer parked alongside the splitter speeds up the job and reduces operator fatigue, allowing one to work for longer periods of time.
  • The bizcacha has one very singular habit; namely, dragging every hard object to the mouth of its burrow: around each group of holes many bones of cattle, stones, thistle-stalks, hard lumps of earth, dry dung, etc., are collected into an irregular heap, which frequently amounts to as much as a wheelbarrow would contain. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo.
  • We might as well have got a wheelbarrow, filled it with 20 notes and set fire to it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then he would ride a bicycle back and forth, and then he would push a wheelbarrow back and forth. Christianity Today
  • And third wheels were only good for tricycles and wheelbarrows.
  • Some "were literally arriving in wheelbarrows" at clinics to enroll in the scaleup, said Jeff Stringer of the Centre for ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Today's modern carts come in different forms; barrow, hand truck, wagon, wheelbarrow, push cart, handbarrow, handcart or gurney.
  • He is now planning to do the same with a motorised wheelbarrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • There had been pilfering of a rather more than casual order: shovels, wheelbarrows and gumboots from the building site. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • On the day of the switch, they formed a procession, piled all their goods on wheelbarrows and handcarts, and returned to Pavement where they set up their stalls.
  • ‘Make yourself useful,’ I said, dumping a pitchfork full of manure and straw into the wheelbarrow.
  • A gigantic oak had been felled by a recent storm & my 10-year-old son & I decided to spend the day together, me chain sawing the oak & splitting the wood, & my son piling it up in the wheelbarrow & hauling it back up to the deck.
  • Old gardening boots, wheelbarrows, and toolboxes can make whimsical substitutes for expensive outdoor containers.
  • She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.
  • If you're a company like Microsoft, and you can issue a three-year bond for a ridiculous 0.875 percent coupon, then you should be borrowing as much cash as you cart away in a wheelbarrow.
  • We get up at 6.30 am and head out to the beach with our wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, machete and rubbish bags.
  • I used hot glue to attach the cutting board to the front edge of the wheelbarrow.
  • The boxes were heavy, and the mansion so huge that I wished for a cart or a wheelbarrow.
  • It was taken to the blunger by wheelbarrow, or horse and cart, and more recently in bogies on a small narrow gauge railway by a pulley system linked to the steam engine.
  • In the yard, a black man pushed a wheelbarrow over low-cut grass, picked up fallen palm fronds and stacked them high. Miracles, Inc.
  • Sergeant John Manuel, who was also known as Jacky, died when a wheelbarrow full of explosives detonated beside him in Helmand Province. WN.com - Articles related to US warned Britain: you must send more troops to Afghanistan
  • Silinga said he thought the robbers used the wheelbarrow to carry off their loot as its tracks seemed headed in the direction of nearby Ntshabeni.
  • She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.
  • Their tools were jacks, picks, crowbars, wheelbarrows and handcarts.
  • But it isn't a hymn sheet he's handing round, it's what he calls notre petite aide-memoire a one-page conversion table setting out, for the comfort and convenience of our readers, what is understood in the real world by such lighthearted expressions as shovel, trowel, pickaxe, heavy and light wheelbarrows and the like. The mission song
  • Their tools were jacks, picks, crowbars, wheelbarrows and handcarts.
  • I sat on the wheelbarrow and sank my teeth into a fresh loaf. Dry bread was the norm.
  • Centuries ago, builders used buckets, barrels, and wheelbarrows to help erect the pyramids.
  • I clambered on to the wheelbarrow, to pray for a healing miracle, laying aside my glasses and hat.
  • Just chuck me in an old wheelbarrow or prop me on the pavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • We left some of our gear in the swim and borrowed Adrian's wheelbarrow to transport our bivvy and remaining gear from our car to the swim.
  • His sister carried him in a wheelbarrow to seek medical help - there is no ambulance service here.
  • Kathryn grinned and placed the pitchfork in the wheelbarrow, which she moved to the manure pile quickly.
  • He trundled a wheelbarrow to the backyard.
  • Wheelbarrows of booze arrive and a ghetto blaster is turned up to the max. The Sun
  • Also on Friday night there was plenty of fun and frolics with the ever-popular wheelbarrow race making a welcome return while it was in many of the local pubs that the festival kicked off in earnest.
  • Our exercise machines are post-hole diggers, shovels, rakes, push mowers, and wheelbarrows.
  • Sergeant John Manuel, who was also known as Jacky, died when a wheelbarrow full of explosives detonated beside him in WN.com - Articles related to US warned Britain: you must send more troops to Afghanistan
  • The wheelbarrow needs filling, after all. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not content with this bit of high-altitude aptitude, the equilibrist re-crosses the falls, first blindfolded, then on a bicycle, then on stilts, then pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back.
  • I recall the shy smile of the spectacled granny riding in a wheelbarrow pulled by her son.
  • Choose a site that's level and shady, has good drainage and allows easy access to wheelbarrows, garden paths and hose hookups.
  • If you're a company like Microsoft, and you can issue a three-year bond for a ridiculous 0.875 percent coupon, then you should be borrowing as much cash as you cart away in a wheelbarrow.
  • The destruction was so complete that the structure had to be gutted and removed by hand and wheelbarrow, piece by piece.
  • Many of our other lawn and garden projects are also popular with tole painters, including our planter collection that consists of a garden wheelbarrow, plump little pig, and dairy cow planter.
  • We also have their fleeces; despite my ludicrous barbering attempts of a month or so back, the two sets of wool completely filled the wheelbarrow.
  • I put the rake in the shed, emptied the sawdust in the brush in back of the house, and parked the wheelbarrow in front of the steps.
  • ‘We propped up one end of the screen on a wheelbarrow and spaded the plants, compost and all, up onto the frame,’ she says.
  • Then he would ride a bicycle back and forth, and then he would push a wheelbarrow back and forth. Christianity Today
  • With little more than a goat, a wheelbarrow and a frankly dilapidated hovel to his name, he obviously does not have an internet connection of his own.
  • My father had a green wooden wheelbarrow and through the course of a day's gardening he filled it with a mountain of weeds and clippings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common.
  • Before that we have a fancy-dress wheelbarrow race: one person sits in the barrow while the other pushes. Times, Sunday Times
  • When they overtook me, they gave a cheer so loud that they drowned the noises of the wheelbarrow and lorry.
  • The garden also boasts an old wheelbarrow filled with plants, and a large tractor tyre tumbling with colour.
  • The concrete may be mixed in a wheelbarrow with a garden hoe.
  • After this experience we were strangely unanimous as to the desirability of going through in some less risky manner (we accused each other of "funking" afterwards), and accordingly sought the aid of a man, a boy, and a wheelbarrow, and in this unconventional manner conveyed our goods and chattels overland to the other end of the tunnel. Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe
  • I clambered on to the wheelbarrow, to pray for a healing miracle, laying aside my glasses and hat.
  • Many people had loaded their possessions on to horse-drawn carts; others pushed wheelbarrows or even prams.
  • Tie the ends of the burlap to keep the root ball and soil intact, then lift the shrub - by the burlap and the bottom - into a wheelbarrow and move it to the new spot.
  • Draping them over the handle of her wheelbarrow or on the fence rail keeps the gloves open so air will dry the moisture trapped inside.
  • It is common practice to find wheelbarrows loaded with full crates of beer being trundled over the highway at this point.
  • Just chuck me in an old wheelbarrow or prop me on the pavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, quality seeds, and so on made their life a good bit easier than it would have been otherwise, but it was hardly comfortable.
  • After his trial the Quaker was chained to a wheelbarrow and twice beaten by a Negro slave until he collapsed.
  • If you don't have a suitable mixing container, such as a plastic basin or a wheelbarrow, prepare the mix on a piece of scrap plywood.
  • ‘I'm hoping to have it set up for carting things around the garden rather than use a wheelbarrow’ he said.
  • The NATO bombing also produced imagery that performs a phantasmatic imaginary, an epic Hollywood film where mighty men and high-tech bombing machines save Kosovar women in babushkas and elderly Albanians in wheelbarrows.
  • Our exercise machines are post-hole diggers, shovels, rakes, push mowers, and wheelbarrows.
  • Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed.
  • The standard tools of the navvies were picks, shovels and a wheelbarrow.
  • I finished with the dirty hay and began piling clean hay from a stack on the far wall, leaving the wheelbarrow for another time.
  • Richard went around to the back to get a rake and wheelbarrow.
  • Yes, the blueprints might call for flying buttresses and oriel windows, but for now it is only a mess of wheelbarrows, uncut limestone, and piles of sand. On cathedrals and wheelbarrows
  • —‘Yes, land, ’ cried Ole Peters, ‘land that one can cart away on thirteen wheelbarrows! Paras. 200–299
  • The ‘original’ Fringe stunt reputedly took place in the 1960s when, apparently, a beautiful naked woman was pushed down Princes Street in a wheelbarrow.
  • They are really being led along by the reader, their inventor, who is never sure whether he will come up with a wheelbarrow or a chariot, the choice of which he wrongly thinks belongs to the author.
  • So I parked the wheelbarrow in front of a stall where I could still see the front of the barn and started mucking.
  • An old woman, having drank until she is unable to walk, is put into a wheelbarrow, and in that situation is solaced with another glass.
  • Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters INDIA OUTLOOK: A laborer pushed a wheelbarrow of mud for making bricks near Siliguri, India, Friday. Today's Photos: Feb. 20
  • The labor was eased by a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, several hammers and a sagging wheelbarrow.
  • And at the weekend he and a group of seven volunteers carefully dug up 73 rare broad-leaved helleborines and took them by wheelbarrow to their new home where they were replanted.
  • I got a brush from the wheelbarrow.
  • There will be stops at friendly garden centres en route for plant and wheelbarrow servicing. The Sun
  • A gardener's wheelbarrow parked outside the Waterlily House had an old Victoria Lily leaf sitting in it (taking up most of the barrow, folded over twice).
  • Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed.
  • This mainly consisted of barrowing as I call carting things off in a wheelbarrow stuff over to the compost pile and raking up some more dead grass in the field. Archive 2006-11-01
  • My father had a green wooden wheelbarrow and through the course of a day's gardening he filled it with a mountain of weeds and clippings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The labor was eased by a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, several hammers and a sagging wheelbarrow.
  • Each in turns fills a wheelbarrow and then with great effort pushes it to where the other man is digging, and empties it. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Plants of different kinds grow in peculiar spots, including wheelbarrows, also adding to the special botanic atmosphere.
  • When we had the fourth wheelbarrow my Jason said: Mr. Bourne, what about Cookie?
  • Wheelbarrows of booze arrive and a ghetto blaster is turned up to the max. The Sun
  • ‘We used to sit the tins in the wheelbarrow and take them to the tailrace at the south end of the beach to empty.
  • Taking advantage of this fact, the fruit-grower may jar them on sheets; or, in large orchards, into a large canvas hopper, which is wheeled from tree to tree upon a wheelbarrow-like frame, and under the apex of which is a tin can into which the insects roll. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • These normally start with a warm-up game of dodgeball or wheelbarrow races.
  • She trundled the wheelbarrow down the garden.
  • Standing at the busy thoroughfares, those such as Yonge and King are here, you can see the policeman holding up his hand to regulate the traffic, because the old rickshaw is there, the taxi-bus is there, the auto is there, and in company with these you can see the man wheeling the wheelbarrow, all competing to see who shall get the first place in this modern traffic of the twentieth century. Changing China
  • These were the days when concrete was mixed on site, and it was wheeled about in rickshaws - double sized wheelbarrows full of liquid concrete.
  • I secured the locks on the wheelbarrow, crawled under canvas and wrote up the log and two letters.
  • We might as well have got a wheelbarrow, filled it with 20 notes and set fire to it. Times, Sunday Times
  • When it's time to use it, set the sifter on top of your wheelbarrow or garden cart and shovel some compost into it.
  • Transportation: The dressed stone can be transported by wheelbarrows, wagons or tubs on rail (of wood or metal), animal driven carts, or by aerial ropeway. 3. Technical and Production Information
  • Stroll through the orchards to your secret hideaway with your supplies on a trusty wheelbarrow. The Sun
  • A peach tree, inherited from their mother and planted in a wheelbarrow for portability, is a constant reminder of Lilian’s absence. A Proper Education for Girls by Elaine diRollo: Book summary
  • I secured the locks on the wheelbarrow, crawled under canvas and wrote up the log and two letters.
  • One old man struggled along with a small barrel of flour on a wheelbarrow.
  • She tied the last box with string and wrote the name Delia Flowers along the side, then placed it in the wheelbarrow. Let The Dead Lie
  • Concrete is most easily handled from a wheelbarrow - not the gardener's kind, but the kind used on construction sites, with a deep carrying base and nearly vertical sides.
  • The wheelbarrow needs filling, after all. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a boy, perhaps fifteen, pushing a wheelbarrow of small items that are for sale: a single roll of toilet paper, a neat metal disk containing shoeblack, and other soft clear plastic wrappers around fist-sized packages of nuts. Between Expectations
  • Every few minutes, she bends to retrieve shards of dirt-smeared glass and broken bricks and tiles which she tosses into a wheelbarrow to be carted away.
  • Sometimes I used to pile stones up and collect them at night with my wheelbarrow for I was working a lot at night.
  • Just chuck me in an old wheelbarrow or prop me on the pavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have actually seen people walk past my house with a full wheelbarrow.

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