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Recent Examples of oxcart
The resort also offers cooking and mixology classes, bird-watching and night frog walks, coffee and wine tastings, tree planting, and traditional oxcart painting classes.
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Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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
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
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
Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
Noun
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Mackinac Island Carriage Tours has Percheron and Belgian draft horses for carriage tours and dray services, the tourism bureau explained.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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Subaru’s decision to build the STI on the Impreza’s five-door wagonette body style rather than the sedan is easy to question, but ultimately tough to fault.—
Matthew Phenix,
WIRED,
14 Jan. 2008
Noun
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In an untitled work from 1995, a cluster of sturdy wagons sits at the edge of a frozen lake, a site where her family of peripatetic horse traders often camped.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Bessent hitched his wagon to Trump in 2023, using his reputation on Wall Street to rally support among business leaders for the returning president.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In present-day Cuba, older adults drag carts loaded with a portable gas tank or a container of charcoal.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated April 29,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Students come in, pick up a cart or basket, and swivel through the aisles, adding apples, noodles, potatoes and milk to their haul.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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