How to Use pushcart in a Sentence

pushcart

noun

• Elliott ducked, retrieved a gun from the pushcart, and fired three shots, the DA said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• Adam Wong, the executive chef, and CK Poon, the general manager, come in with a pushcart near the end of the meal.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
• But just as much a part of New York City life, if harder to spot, are the female street vendors, who often hawk their wares from small pushcarts.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• Ragmen with pushcarts then, punks with switchblades now.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• Travis Boersma and his brother Dane started their chain of drive-thru coffee kiosks with a single pushcart in 1992.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2021
• The storied Lower East Side fixture evolved from a mess of open-air pushcarts at the turn of the 20th century selling pickles, herring and hats.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• Consider the image of the street crowded with pushcarts, horses and clotheslines crowded amid the cranes and lighting rigs.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The firm was started by two brothers who quit the dairy industry to sell coffee from a pushcart (equipped with a single espresso machine and a stereo) in the small city of Grants Pass in 1992.
  — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• The heavy wooden pushcart was replaced by a horse and wagon, then replaced again in 1927 by a truck — the truck’s motor powered the wheel, bringing an end to the era of foot-pedaling.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 31 July 2017
• The chain of coffee stands that started with a single pushcart in tiny Grants Pass now numbers more than 480 stores, stretching from Washington state to Texas.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
• Gomez, who researched pushcart eating back to the Roman era for his design, says aesthetics are key.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• Blanco Colima, a bar/lounge/restaurant housed in a historic mansion, is the best place to go to grab a small bite and a cold beverage and watch the people and pushcarts go by.
  — Rachel Waldman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018
• Churro vendors, many of whom are women, with pushcarts are a common sight in many subway stations.
  — Azi Paybarah, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• Some students purchased flavored water for $1 at a pushcart near the building entrance.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• A vintage library pushcart became a bedside bookshelf, and an assortment of stools found a new home at a table with a base made from rusty anchor chain.
  — David A. Keeps, ELLE Decor, 24 July 2012
• Back in the day, a young Harmon and his siblings would wake up early, in the thick air of a Delta morning, and travel from town to town with their father, selling tamales from a pushcart made out of bicycle parts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Some of his contemporaries sold old plumbing parts or fruit and vegetables from pushcarts set up in the middle of Maxwell Street, not far from where that sign now forbids it.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• For brunch, there are bacon-cinnamon rolls and dishes like the NYC pushcart, with bacon, eggs, potatoes and a Manhattan-style soft pretzel.
  — Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Mr. Braziller recalled his century of contrasts: a son of Russian immigrants and a high school dropout, whose father died before he was born and whose mother sold old clothes from a pushcart.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• Some products, such as little pushcarts and walkers, promise to help babies learn to walk, but the marketing statements about that seem muted and secondary to just having fun.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• Wander the woods on a mile of trail and glimpse a sublimely secluded group campsite for which pushcarts facilitate gear toting.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• His videos have featured people selling elote, grilled Mexican street corn, at a foldable table, a man selling produce from the trunk of his car and folks selling paletas from a pushcart.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• An ice cream pushcart, with paletas and toppings, is expected to launch soon for additional dessert service; brunch is planned for late spring with chilaquiles, tequila bloody Marys and more.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Santamaria filled a black pushcart with produce and a box of rice before getting vaccinated.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
• The ordinance defines food establishments as spaces that offer the sale of food or beverages to the public on or off the premises, a pushcart, stand or vehicle.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
• Sidewalk vendors and pushcart operators must pay $38 annually for a permit to sell their wares in San Diego.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• Walking with a pushcart produced roughly the same caloric output and being accompanied by a caddie burned 621 calories.
  — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• After the appetizers, the items customers have ordered to cook in their hotpots will arrive attractively arranged on a pushcart.
  — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Adding categories of mobile food establishments to separate pushcart vendors, food trucks that use an outside cooking area — such as a BBQ pit or pizza oven — and food trucks where all the cooking is done inside.
  — Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
• The story revolves around a ragtag band of pushcart vendors who go to war against the fleets of trucks taking over their narrow city streets, most memorably by attacking enemy vehicles with pea shooters.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024