Explore Trundling through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Trundling meaning
gerund of trundle: the motion of something that trundles.
Using Trundling
- The main meaning on this page is: gerund of trundle: the motion of something that trundles.
- In the example corpus, trundling often appears in combinations such as: trundling along.
Context around Trundling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trundling
- In this selection, "trundling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cars, sweetie, across and past stand out and add context to how "trundling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cap by trundling over from and could make trundling up to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trundling" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trundling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hurricane Debby is trundling across the Southeast, dropping massive amounts of rain. (12 words)
Whenever we finished with a package, a new one would inevitably be trundling past, ready for our attention. (18 words)
I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. (21 words)
Bob Jamieson imagines an early evening, back in the 1970s, when the dull end to a day on a council estate would be enlivened by the arrival of a trundling sweetie truck, which would announce itself by playing heavy metal music. (41 words)
I’ve seen expensive new cars trundling along well below the speed limit because – it seems to me, anyway – the owner didn’t take the cost of fuel into account when he bought the car. (35 words)
But Argentina were all business and came out firing in the second half as Petti marked his 50th cap by trundling over from a driving lineout to reduce the deficit. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
Bob Jamieson imagines an early evening, back in the 1970s, when the dull end to a day on a council estate would be enlivened by the arrival of a trundling sweetie truck, which would announce itself by playing heavy metal music.
Hurricane Debby is trundling across the Southeast, dropping massive amounts of rain.
I’ve seen expensive new cars trundling along well below the speed limit because – it seems to me, anyway – the owner didn’t take the cost of fuel into account when he bought the car.
But Argentina were all business and came out firing in the second half as Petti marked his 50th cap by trundling over from a driving lineout to reduce the deficit.
Trundling along until communication ceased last June, Opportunity roamed a record 28 miles (45 kilometers) and worked longer than any other lander in the history of space exploration.
Whenever we finished with a package, a new one would inevitably be trundling past, ready for our attention.
And the only thing that could make trundling up to the climate-controlled bird cage in Midtown West worth it is one woman: Martha Stewart.
I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around.
Common combinations with trundling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: