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Recent Examples of oxcart
There was little shelter for the newcomers, and only those with money could obtain oxcarts.
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Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Sheets and his colleagues tried using oxen and an oxcart belonging to a Joya de Cerén villager instead of a truck.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600.
—Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
Barges on the river and oxcarts on land brought thousands of tons of stone and other construction materials from faraway places in France to the building site.
—Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
As Bob Ruppert writes in Journal of the American Revolution, the rebels loaded the statue’s mangled remains onto oxcarts bound for a foundry in Litchfield, Connecticut.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Sheets and his colleagues tried using oxen and an oxcart belonging to a Joya de Cerén villager instead of a truck.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
—Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600.
—Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
Barges on the river and oxcarts on land brought thousands of tons of stone and other construction materials from faraway places in France to the building site.
—Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
As Bob Ruppert writes in Journal of the American Revolution, the rebels loaded the statue’s mangled remains onto oxcarts bound for a foundry in Litchfield, Connecticut.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
Noun
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The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
28 Oct. 2022
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While bikes are permitted, the most efficient way to deliver packages are through dray wagon horse carriages.—
Dixita Limbachia,
Detroit Free Press,
13 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Guests can now have the Maine camping getaway of their dreams in a covered wagon, two of which are available for the upcoming camping season.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2025
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Its 45 larger-than-life figures—cowboys on horseback, women riding sidesaddle, and lots of covered wagons— make up one of the world’s largest bronze sculpture installations.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2025
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As the two men argued on Sunday, Whyte’s attacker grabbed a gasoline canister from the food cart and emptied it on the victim before starting the blaze, cops say.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Simply go to the My LG Membership rewards page, follow the instructions to sign up, fill your cart, and use code WELCOME20.—
Ryan Waniata,
WIRED,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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