1
: a load (as of occupants) that fills a car
a carload of tourists
2
: the minimum number of tons required for shipping at carload rates
3
: a large unspecified quantity
a carload of excuses
Examples of carload in a Sentence
She brought home a carload of books.
People were arriving by the carload.
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Two carloads of the creatures arrived in Kansas City by rail from Miami, Florida, on the morning of May 6.
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Jeremy Drouin, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2025
That night, Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who had driven from Detroit to help protestors was shot and killed by Klansmen driving toward Montgomery to pick up a carload of marchers.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
While in his mid-twenties, Olea would tool around the Key — or take a jaunt to Coconut Grove — with a carload of teenage girls.
—Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In early June, the prominent journalist and TV pundit Gul Bukhari, who had been critical of the military in blog posts, was kidnapped on her way to a TV studio in the center of Lahore by five carloads of men.
—Ahmed Rashid, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2018
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Jeremy Drouin, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2025
That night, Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who had driven from Detroit to help protestors was shot and killed by Klansmen driving toward Montgomery to pick up a carload of marchers.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
While in his mid-twenties, Olea would tool around the Key — or take a jaunt to Coconut Grove — with a carload of teenage girls.
—Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In early June, the prominent journalist and TV pundit Gul Bukhari, who had been critical of the military in blog posts, was kidnapped on her way to a TV studio in the center of Lahore by five carloads of men.
—Ahmed Rashid, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2018
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“Carload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carload. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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carload
noun
car·load
ˈkär-ˈlōd 
: a load (as of passengers) that fills a car
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