hauling

verb

present participle of haul
1
as in pulling
to cause to follow by applying steady force on a pair of strong oxen hauled the plow

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2
as in carrying
to support and take from one place to another a vast army of trucks haul produce across America every day

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Recent Examples of hauling To protect the boardwalk and the homes there, the city has been hauling sand from the west end of the beach to the east to create a buffer between the ocean and the shore. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 For now, Starship's most immediate role is hauling Starlink satellites in orbit. — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Kodiak has spent four years hauling IKEA freight on this route with a safety observer aboard. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 And few vehicles can switch from carrying a family to hauling furniture quite so easily. — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026 While the university grappled with yet another football scandal, an Ann Arbor moving crew simply got to work—sorting, packing and hauling away the remnants of a fallen career, one item at a time, over the span of six hours. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026 The sides can be unzipped and folded flat to convert the wagon into a cart for hauling oversized items or a senior dog. — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026 There, the couple’s daughter, Amy Johnson, explained that her parents are fighting their mother’s pancreatic cancer and that the luggage-hauling job is real. — David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026 That's a lot of screen for a vehicle whose primary job is still hauling stuff. — New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hauling
  1. pulling
  2. carrying
  3. dragging
  4. transporting
  5. towing
  6. ferrying
  7. tugging
Verb
  • One of the most fun parts of writing comedy is coming up with alt after alt after alt for a joke, pulling ever-increasingly stupid punch lines out of one’s ass.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The deputy made a U-turn and saw the man, who deputies say is 49-year-old Brenton Burke, kneeling under the truck’s steering column and pulling wires, the arrest report states.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling
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  • Different animal species have their own flea species, so rats and plague-carrying fleas traveled together.
    — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
  • That supplier could be seen in a video carrying a bag, which prosecutors say contained a kilo of cocaine.
    — Jennifer Borrasso, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of carrying
Verb
  • Count seats against your guest list, then throw down floor cushions or a blanket pile instead of dragging in extra chairs.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Plus, because most wide-legs have longer inseams, a low heel prevents them from dragging on the ground.
    — Eva Thomas, InStyle, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of dragging
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  • The aircraft was originally designed for tactical logistics, transporting supplies to military personnel and vessels rather than engaging aerial targets.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Peltola required medical attention after the accident, which happened when another vehicle crashed into the one transporting Peltola and her family, the campaign said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of transporting
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  • As for towing, the trim with the larger battery is capable of towing up to 4,409 lb (2,000 kg).
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In 2015, she was suspended for a week after a video surfaced of her yelling at and belittling a towing company employee.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of towing
Verb
  • The Cutter Tampa’s crew returned to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale ferrying 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 2,355 pounds of marijuana.
    — David Goodhue October 15, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Residents of some leafy New York City suburbs say their peace and quiet is being shattered by helicopters ferrying even wealthier travelers out to the Hamptons, according to new reporting.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of ferrying
Verb
  • Sitting in a boat, tugging their house behind them, the journey initially appears to be going smoothly.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The sweet gallery opens with Rocki tugging at a large wig placed on her head as Rihanna can be heard laughing in the background.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of tugging

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“Hauling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hauling. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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