How to Use trundle in a Sentence

trundle

verb
  • The children trundled off to bed.
  • She trundled her suitcase into the room.
  • This means that the mushroom sprung from the ground when dinosaurs still trundled across the Earth.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
  • This means that the mushroom sprung from the ground when dinosaurs still trundled across the Earth.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
  • Ease into that left to right transition and, whoa, that Civic trundling along in the right lane looks scared.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2020
  • In the stop-and-go, the SF90 trundles along without any thermal drama.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There’s nearly no road noise trundling along surface streets at up to 45 mph.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Punch shots that land short and then trundle on must be played away from the pin to the left side of the green to use the slopes to move the ball back to the right and closer to the pin.
    star-telegram, 16 May 2018
  • Most of us would rather drive or fly than trundle around in a quaint metal box that costs more and takes longer.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
  • There’s nearly no road noise trundling along surface streets at up to 45 miles per hour.
    Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • So this 35-millimeter camera was trundling around my head like a choo-choo train.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Tucked inside was Pragyan, a small, six-wheeled rover that trundled down a ramp onto the moon’s surface.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • What did visitors who trundled to D.C.’s wharf get for their 50 cents?
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
  • To do that, South Meridian Street had to close to traffic for half a day, and a large crane trundled down with the new window.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2018
  • That might sound strange, given the lack of enormous dinosaurs or giant ground sloths trundling around.
    Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • Somewhere in the pre-dawn hours, as her train trundled through Eastern Ukraine, Kovalenko got a call from Kyiv.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Small front-loaders trundled around with their buckets crammed full of trash.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • Leading larvae will start to tap, and the rest of the pack will tap—and then everyone will trundle onward.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • One by one, an orange loader scooped them off the bare sandy soil and trundled them to a pit being dug by a backhoe.
    Jack Healy, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Farmers, like Bastiao, may be trundling around the next bend, hauling wide farm equipment loads.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 7 May 2018
  • When the agents were gone and the cows had trundled back toward the ranch, Cliven’s eldest son, Ryan, climbed onto a post and held his hat high above his head.
    Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 May 2018
  • An hour later, about half of the people trundled upstairs for the first dinner seating.
    Jamie Feldmar, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Even now robotic bulldozers and dump trucks were at work trundling more regolith onto the building across the way.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Then there were a couple of minutes of peace, before Liverpool’s bus came trundling through.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • And so, 27-plus hours later, the travelers trundled back to Orlando's MCO airport to hop back on the plane.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The fetch rover, about the size of a coffee table, will trundle out of the lander to seek the sample tubes deposited years earlier.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The jury convicted Carey, and deputies trundled the cussing former marshal from the courtroom.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The trains, though, are generally with five to seven cars, far shorter than the freight trains, some 100 cars long, that trundle through the central city.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In one video, a young man trundles to the riverfront in the northern city of Tianjin and flips one casually into the water.
    Trefor Moss, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
  • The group of protesters from a couple of progressive groups in the area, were jumpy whenever a dump truck trundled by or a siren wailed.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023

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