How to Use handcart in a Sentence

handcart

noun
  • Based on the true story of a man who rescued a handcart company.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Now at the other end of the ghost tunnel, Cora and Molly get off the handcart and emerge from a cave.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • Boyum pulled a handcart holding six, four-gallon water containers.
    — John Tuohy, IndyStar, 9 June 2025
  • Musa Barbad with a handcart, left high school to join the peace march that arrived in Kabul Monday.
    — Habib Khan Totakhil, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • One blistering morning, a 55-year-old woman named Lin gripped the hot metal handles of her handcart.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
  • Investigators determined a man had taken the box out of his apartment and wheeled it through the complex in a handcart, police said.
    — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • On a recent Thursday afternoon, the restrooms had dozens of users in the span of an hour, most toting bags or pulling handcarts and suitcases.
    — Anita Chabria, sacbee.com, 18 May 2017
  • The church sponsored 10 handcart expeditions over five years, all of them disasters due to poor planning and lack of support.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • Some people arrived in campers, in it for the long haul; some came in minivans, entered the tasting room with handcarts, and left with an axle-straining number of cases of wine.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Celeste joined the queue, stepping gingerly around handcarts and baby strollers and small clusters of men and women wrapped in blankets, their belongings stacked beside them on the concrete.
    — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The footage showed a man prosecutors identified as Sterling coming and going, using a handcart to drag a large object under a blanket through the garage doors.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Several activists surrounded a deliveryman with a handcart loaded with milk cartons.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Instead of riding in wagons, impoverished church immigrants, most from the British Isles, pushed handcarts filled with their belongings, five people to each cart.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • There will be programs, pioneer costumes, handcarts, games, stories and remembrance of the pioneers whose legacy lives on in the valleys of the Mountain West.
    — Glenna Christensen, idahostatesman, 7 July 2017
  • In fact, Nitta's grandfather used to ride to Sanda -- another famous Wagyu-breeding area in Hyogo -- by bike with a handcart to pick up the produce himself.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong and Tetsu Sukegawa, CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Surveillance video allegedly showed Moreno using a handcart to transport the woman’s body, which was still bleeding, resulting in the initial charge, Fox 26 of Houston reported.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 May 2022

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