How to Use hand truck in a Sentence

hand truck

noun

• 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
• The market vendors scooped up the goods at Manhattan piers and hauled them the final few blocks to the market with hand trucks.
  — Sean Patrick Cooper, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• Across a loading dock, a young man pushed a hand truck piled high with boxes of Brazilian mangoes.
  — Sean Patrick Cooper, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• 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
• Late in the morning, a vegetable farmer from Patrick Springs appeared pushing a hand truck stacked with late-season tomatoes.
  — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 21 Feb. 2018
• Police said McGregor threw a hand truck at a bus causing minor injury to a person on the bus.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2018
• The 14-year-old wheeled the cabinet on a hand truck to the front office and put it beside the desk where his grandmother worked as a secretary for the company.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Later, two officials with duty belts and handcuffs came out of the home to get wheeled hand trucks, taking them inside.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• He was charged with three counts of assault after he was caught on video throwing a hand truck into a the window of a bus filled with rival UFC fighters.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2018
• Leave it to Master & Dynamic to make a speaker that sounds beautiful, looks fantastic, and has to be moved around your house with a hand truck.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
• Everything from altars to statues to paper goods to tea, all of our huge collections, carts and carts full of goods, just wheeling it with a hand truck.
  — Eva Hagberg, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• McGregor threw a hand truck through a bus window and left two fighters injured – and subsequently off that week’s event.
  — Mma Junkie Staff, MMA Junkie, 19 Oct. 2019
• The man who flagged down the truck, later identified as Lev, retrieved a hand truck from his rented Toyota 4Runner and began to load one of the services into the vehicle when police moved in.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 10 July 2018
• Chairs and tables scattered throughout are Frankenstein’d; motorcycle wheels combine with mid-century tabletops, and hand trucks serve as the back to dinette chairs.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
• McGregor allegedly threw a guard rail and a hand truck at a bus carrying fighters, shattering the windows.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Two of the fighters were injured by broken glass when McGregor allegedly threw a metal hand truck at the bus’s windows and were forced to withdraw from their bouts on Saturday night.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Jimmy also bought a hand truck and gas can from Home Depot and told investigators those supplies were to use with a pressure washer at his Fort Lauderdale home.
  — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• On a cold morning in January 2012, the sixty-year-old bank courier was easing a hand truck loaded with heavy boxes down a slushy ramp behind his company's office in downtown Boston.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024