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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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The wagon floats start at Bienville and Chartres streets at 10:30am and end at the restaurant.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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The men stacked 15 half-barrels, each weighing about 65 pounds, in the wagon.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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More than 1,000 Amazon shoppers have added it to their carts recently.—
Nicol Natale,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The couple had been browsing for a plate when an employee wheeled out a cart stocked with new arrivals.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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