busload

noun

bus·​load ˈbəs-ˌlōd How to pronounce busload (audio)
: a load that fills a bus
busloads of tourists

Examples of busload in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Two busloads of students were about to vanish forever, and yet the violence was far from over. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 With dawn comes a new busload of demonstrators, ultra-Orthodox children and teens from northern Israel. Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024 Aurora, Colorado Springs and Fremont County passed resolutions that will do nothing to prevent Abbott and others from sending busloads of migrants, refugees and immigrants to their communities. The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2024 Under an avalanche of publicity, students of art, design and social history crowded into the galleries with the limousine society crowd, busloads of tourists and classes of chattering children. Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 We are sent to Namibia (where Pepe’s parents hailed from) in the 1970s with a busload of gawking German tourists on a safari tour. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024 The busload of tourists saw her and basically drooped over the side of the bus screaming her name! Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2024 The Cecil County Public Schools community gathered by the busload Tuesday night to protest looming budget cuts that many are blaming on County Executive Danielle Hornberger. Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024 Chicago, which has been struggling to house the busloads of people who have arrived over the last year, had established protocols for drop-offs that resulted in some bus companies’ leaving migrants in suburbs outside the city, instead. Daniella Silva, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of busload was in 1854

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“Busload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busload. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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