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Example sentences for "carting"

Lexicographically close words:
carters; cartes; cartilage; cartilages; cartilaginous; cartload; cartloads; cartman; cartmen; cartographer
  1. The prices for carting which were demanded were detestable.

  2. All Boston was in confusion packing up and carting out of town household furniture, military stores, goods, etc.

  3. From first to last, and with the coal-carting period thrown in, monotony rather than variety has been the characteristic of it.

  4. Sometimes he takes a day for his own affairs, carting home hop-bine in his donkey-cart, or getting heath for some thatching job that has been offered to him.

  5. The task generally set for the day is the breaking up and carting away of two cubic fathoms of earth to every five men and two horses.

  6. They were harvesting this as we passed, carting it to the yourts in a rough sort of wooden cart, and stacking it up.

  7. That will save me wood-carting for many a day, and it is a job that bothers my old back.

  8. However, you're not worth carting seventeen miles to Cunjee, so you can go--the quicker the better.

  9. In the year named my fruit was very large and finely colored, and knowing they would be damaged by carting in the usual way, I had a number of small baskets made, and then I constructed a crate to fit them.

  10. Carting sand on clay is rarely remunerative; the reverse is decidedly so, and top- dressings of clay on light land are often more beneficial than equal amounts of manure.

  11. After dinner, my companions resumed their labors; but Kit directed me to commence carting the timber to the block house.

  12. It was the only vehicle on the place, and was used for carting wood and hay, and for all the purposes of the farm.

  13. Then there is the difficulty of carting manure at that season when the roads, which are not macadamized, would be cut to pieces.

  14. I had not been long at my place, indeed, I had scarcely finished watering my seed bed and carting out my daily stint of two barrow loads of slash from the orchard, when I heard the road scraper rattling over the bridge by the brook.

  15. When six o'clock came I was still carting from the top of the orchard, and for an hour past I had been working with that grim automatism which characterizes the last lap of a two-mile race.

  16. I left them as they were, and busied myself with rooting out undeniable weeds and carting off the slash and rubbish.

  17. The Dandy being back at the Bitter Springs superintending the carting of new posts for the stockyard there, the missus was left in the care of Johnny and Cheon.

  18. It would have been more to the point if you'd done the carting for your mother," Tom Dilworth said, sharply.

  19. I saw you on the back road carting a big bundle.

  20. An army train of wagons is engaged in carting them away from early morning till late at night; but the green forest grows, in spite of it all, until in places it shuts the shipping out of sight altogether.

  21. After which, Silesia for us;--and we shall then be near our Magazines withal, and this severe stress of carting will abate or cease.

  22. Daun's problem of carting provisions, and guarding his multifarious posts, and sources of meal and defence, is not without its difficulties.

  23. Word had been left at all the inns and carting offices about both markets for the tenant of Cauldbrae farm to call at Mr. Traill's place for Bobby.

  24. By way of mutual encouragement they went together through the sculptured doorway, that bore the arms of the ancient guild of the candlemakers on the lintel, and into the carting office on the front.

  25. In the ancient guildhall of the candlemakers, at the top of the Row, was another carting office and Harrow Inn, a resort of country carriers.

  26. The carting office that occupied the street floor was closed, or Auld Jock would have sought shelter there.

  27. There it had been during the winter, and they only saw it when it was carting sea-weed or bringing a load of fish from the beach for the inn-keeper.

  28. The picture of Mr Slope carting away the rubbish was still present to his mind.

  29. He said nothing to Mrs Bold about the hospital sermons and services, nothing about the exclusion of the old men from the cathedral, nothing about dilapidation and painting, nothing about carting away the rubbish.

  30. Good, regular winter work, as long as it lasts; carting up rough timber and bringing back sawn planks.

  31. Chapter IV Teams of horses driving up over the moors, carting up houses for the new man come to settle in the wilds; load after load, for days on end.

  32. He sets off home again and begins carting out manure.

  33. Here was a young foreman or manager in charge of the carting work; a lordly young spark he was, and grumbled at not getting horses enough, for all that there were not so many loads to come.

  34. Sends away his lad could be working on the place getting in winter fuel and carting hay with that horse of his, but keeps on his storeman--chief clerk, he calls him.

  35. All looked well; never before had there been such carting and traffic up over the moors, and there were many that earned good money letting out their horses for the work.

  36. Chapter XIII The winter round of work was as before; carting wood, mending tools and implements.

  37. There was a good average snowfall that winter, and early in the year, when the roads were passable, folk from the village began carting up telegraph poles over the moors, dropping their loads at regular intervals.

  38. Only Isak, trundling like a tub-wheel through the forest in winter-time carting some few heavy sticks down to the village, to bring back planks and boards for his building.

  39. Early in the new year the roads were good, and Isak started carting down his loads of wood to the village; he had his regular customers now, and the summer-dried wood fetched a good price.

  40. You've worked enough," said he, "raking and carting and all.

  41. That's when the Russian peasant gets his rest also, and with the spring he begins his energetic life of farming and agriculture, of carting and labour.

  42. And he settles there and then that I am to start on Monday with the harrow horse, carting out manure, the lad to take one of the Captain's carriage horses for the harrow; he himself would stick to the ploughing.

  43. During this time his companions employed themselves in felling and carting trees to furnish the ribs, timbers, and planks.

  44. He was already taught to make himself useful by drawing loads of wood and carting away the stones which were extracted from the bed of Creek Glycerine.

  45. Two men, who could with a clear conscience acquit themselves of any guilty intention, were here herding with common criminals and carting sand like them.

  46. According to Winfield there was quite a business carried on at one time in carting water from the hill and selling it by the pail from door to door.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.