How to Use schlep in a Sentence

schlep

verb

• We schlepped our luggage through the airport.
• The long-term trend is for consumers to order online, rather than to schlep to the mall.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Don’t get in your car and schlep north to 1920 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan just yet.
  — Jose Lambiet, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• So Sheldon schleps down to Texas in hopes of burying the hatchet.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 3 May 2018
• Don’t want to organize and schlep all that gear, or hate sleeping on the ground?
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• The pressure is also mounting on the people who have to schlep all these parcels to front doors.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• No kitchen, but guests can schlep in food from nearby eateries.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• The athletes have to schlep loaded kayaks through the dense jungle on multi-day portages.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 July 2022
• The bright side was seeing a guy like Rory McIlroy schlep his own bag for four hours.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
• While men took to the open road, women were often left to schlep children and groceries.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
• The idea of not having to schlep back and forth to work—losing about two hours a day from their lives—is wonderful.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• That’s not to say everyone will want to schlep elsewhere.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• After the complex opened in 1933, the concourse stores languished because people didn’t want to schlep down the steps to the plaza and back again.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• With a beam of 39 feet, the yacht will be able to schlep a full arsenal of supplies for her mothership.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
• Use it as a wagon stroller to tote around a couple of little ones or as a plain old wagon to schlep around your gear.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
• Most guys of his age and position wouldn’t schlep their kid brother to concerts, let alone as a third wheel.
  — Sir Lucian Grainge, Billboard, 15 June 2017
• Either way, guides are available to escort you there and schlep your supplies.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2016
• Two problems: This can play havoc with our backs, and not everyone has a bag big enough to schlep a laptop.
  — Wsj Off Duty Staff / F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal; Prop Styling By Catherine Campbell Pearson , WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• On the hoop side, 6-foot-11 center Qudus Wahab will need only half an hour to schlep his stuff from Georgetown to Maryland.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
• Plus, the removable battery can be charged on its own, so there's no need to schlep the whole vacuum over to an outlet.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2023
• Screenings now start as early as 9 a.m., slots that are no one’s first choice because who wants to schlep across town at that early hour?
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Who wants to schlep around with a massive swathe of thick lambskin on their arm all day, sans air conditioning?
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 July 2021
• Enlist your little ones to schlep tools and small plants in your backyard with the Step2 Springtime Wheelbarrow for kids.
  — Rachel Murphy, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020
• But what a hassle to schlep junior's furniture on a plane trip, even folded up.
  — Philly.com, 4 June 2017
• Some will have to schlep their case files farther from their existing offices to get to the new courthouse, which is located on the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2020
• Spending lots of quality time in your garden and yard but tired of constantly having to schlep back and forth from the shed or garage?
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 4 Sep. 2020
• Backpacking hammocks need to be lightweight, durable, and easy to schlep around, and this one delivers.
  — Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
• Usually only the most hardcore activists are willing to schlep across the state and give up a full day for a convention.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2021
• Employees battled traffic to schlep into the office, where they were packed into small, tight spaces and sat in front of a screen for much of the day.
  — Byruth Umoh, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
• Thirty years ago, a customer had to schlep to a department store to sniff tester strips while fending off salespeople from all directions.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024