by the boatload

phrase

: in large numbers

We bought souvenirs by the boatload.

Examples of by the boatload in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From there, they're sent by the boatload down the Congo River — the second-largest in Africa — for sale in Kinshasa's markets. — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025

For five decades, folks in Pensacola, Florida, and in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach along neighboring Alabama’s coastline have been sipping and savoring bushwackers by the boatload. — Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025

Not so this time around as famous faces came ashore by the boatload. — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024

Our advice to Suzuki is to crank up the assembly plants and send Samurais by the boatload. — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023

Survivors of Hurricane Ian who were stranded on Sanibel Island after parts of the causeway collapsed in the storm trickled to shore by the boatload Friday, as rescuers began to make trips back and forth. — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022

In the past, Martinez and Devers have produced runs by the boatload. — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022

Rhymes for by the boatload

• photocathode
• photodiode
• abode
• anode
• barcode
• bestowed
• borrowed
• carload
• caseload
• cathode
• commode
• corrode