Sentence examples for shlep from inspiring English sources

And there is something else they can do to make their time in London more pleasant, to avoid having to shlep through the West End wheeling cases, wondering where Abercrombie and Fitch is – they can not bother going there.

I gave up trying to fly solely with carry-on bags after numerous occasions when I had to shlep my bags from one end of O'Hare International Airport to another (a distance that can exceed two miles) to make a connecting flight.

"I didn't want to shlep up to the Bronx every morning," he said.

She made me shlep to the theater for tickets to a schmaltzy play.

I think of this as I shlep through the airport security line with my heavy bags (Willy Loman style), as crazy people sit in front of me on the plane, trying to break my nose by throwing their seatbacks onto me, and as I wake up early to travel to the next destination.

On the other hand, at least we're enjoying art as we dig deeper to shlep across the Hudson.

And when my godmother shlepped me to see a children's film, "Born Free," I found its sentimentality truly ridiculous.

"Even Yitzhak Shamir shlepped to Madrid" for a peace conference in 1991, he said.

To the list of things that J.D. Salinger found hard to bear, we can now add these: pompous graduation ceremonies and shlepping overseas to see tulips.

So, shortly after 7 p.m., the rag-tag assemblage shlepped several blocks north in the evening chill to a makeshift site, a fitting frustration given the untidy subject at hand: whether to approve a pawn shop license on the uninspired 7000 block of North Clark Street.

You know, not really, other than just the previous two weeks of shlepping heavy gear.