oxcart

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of oxcart Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025 There was little shelter for the newcomers, and only those with money could obtain oxcarts. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024 Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024 Sheets and his colleagues tried using oxen and an oxcart belonging to a Joya de Cerén villager instead of a truck. Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets. Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022 The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600. Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021 Barges on the river and oxcarts on land brought thousands of tons of stone and other construction materials from faraway places in France to the building site. Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
Noun
  • The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • While bikes are permitted, the most efficient way to deliver packages are through dray wagon horse carriages.
    Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • Israel can and must be the engine of the crypto industry rather than a trailing wagon.
    Tomer Niv, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Everything from the Conestoga wagon to early computer processing was developed along it.
    James Dodson July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • During the episode, Howard broke down crying during a meeting with Rogen's studio head Matt Remick over his critique of the film — and things really crashed and burned when Rogen fell into and destroyed a bar cart after Howard threw his signature baseball hat at him in anger.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • After the cashier scans, quickly return items to your cart, pay, and move to the bagging area.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025

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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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