trainload
noun
train·load
ˈtrān-ˌlōd 
: the full freight or passenger capacity of a railroad train
also
: a load that fills a train
Examples of trainload in a Sentence
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Modern-day Vanderbilts should expect a trainload of paperwork.
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Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2023
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
In the waning days of the war, in April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with a trainload of what was left of the Confederate treasury in gold and silver.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
The Russian Defense Ministry released footage of a trainload of armored vehicles leaving Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
—Jill Lawless, ajc, 16 Feb. 2022
Russian Defense Ministry video showed a trainload of armored vehicles moving across a bridge away from Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
—chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
Likewise, a sequence in which the trio and a trainload of passengers traverse Italy, until a trestle very close to collapse interrupts their journey.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
Atlanta defamation lawyer Lin Wood first latched onto the family, and brought in John Pierce, a civil litigator from Los Angeles with a trainload of personal baggage.
—Bruce Vielmetti, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2021
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Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2023
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
In the waning days of the war, in April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with a trainload of what was left of the Confederate treasury in gold and silver.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
The Russian Defense Ministry released footage of a trainload of armored vehicles leaving Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
—Jill Lawless, ajc, 16 Feb. 2022
Russian Defense Ministry video showed a trainload of armored vehicles moving across a bridge away from Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
—chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
Likewise, a sequence in which the trio and a trainload of passengers traverse Italy, until a trestle very close to collapse interrupts their journey.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
Atlanta defamation lawyer Lin Wood first latched onto the family, and brought in John Pierce, a civil litigator from Los Angeles with a trainload of personal baggage.
—Bruce Vielmetti, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2021
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First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trainload. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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