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
  • 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 go door to door with pushcarts, offering to take or even buy unwanted electronics.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Instead of once a month, the city’s pushcart vendors are now only required to change the hot-dog water every other month.
    — John Ficarra, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The two initially sold coffee out of a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The two initially sold coffee out of a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass.
    — Carl Weiser, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Gomez, who researched pushcart eating back to the Roman era for his design, says aesthetics are key.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • One person gave him a lift after his pushcart broke down outside Ensenada.
    — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • So are the Italian nonnas who haggled with the pushcart vendors and kept a watchful eye on the neighborhood.
    — Lisa Ellex, SPIN, 3 June 2024
  • 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
  • Santamaria filled a black pushcart with produce and a box of rice before getting vaccinated.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
  • At some point, Elliott began filming the encounter and apparently grabbed a gun from his pushcart.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Travis Boersma and his brother Dane started their chain of drive-thru coffee kiosks with a single pushcart in 1992.
    — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The layout opens into the produce section — a nod to the company’s roots, when John Wegman sold fresh produce from a pushcart in Rochester.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stairs aren't an option for Mitchell, who needs a walker or pushcart to get around, and takes the Metra Electric Line twice a week to care for her mother.
    — Megan De Mar, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • On half the corners in downtown New York, there’s a hustler with a pushcart or a folding table hawking knockoff Gucci bags and Margiela shades.
    — Heshel Rolnick, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • 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 franchise started as a pushcart in Oregon in 1992, and now has over 1,100 locations across the country.
    — Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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