How to Use armload in a Sentence

armload

noun
  • Lamb's armload of books was laden with titles about art and artists.
    M.l. Elrick, Freep.com, 21 July 2025
  • An aide trailed him, holding an armload of books for signing.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Learn the best time to plant peonies for optimal growth and an armload of blossoms.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
  • They’re still woven in France, come in tons of colors, and fit armloads of cargo.
    Ryan Haase, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The permit allows for one tree up to 10 feet tall, plus an armload of branches and some pinecones.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • So many people charge into a new year with an armload of resolutions.
    Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • And users have responded in kind, eating up iOS apps by the armload.
    Mike Isaac, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2012
  • The couple in line ahead of us brought along a group of relatives, all dressed up and holding armloads of flowers.
    Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019
  • People rushed into a Nike store and carried out armloads of clothing.
    CBS News, 2 June 2020
  • An armload of green branches for decorations may be taken as part of this permit.
    Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • With a few powerful machete whacks, Inuma felled the tree and carried off an armload of prizes.
    Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Those were chaotic events, with shoppers grabbing merchandise by the armload.
    Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There are perfectly serious record collectors who might lug an armload of vinyl home from a flea market.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Looters were running out of stores in the northeastern section of the city with armloads of merchandise.
    Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
  • Keep adding armloads of boughs or other vegetation if the mattress compresses too much or isn’t warm enough.
    Popular Science, 28 May 2020
  • Are armloads of plastic trash washing up on sunny beaches just a small impact for whale watchers or sunbathers or swimmers?
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Like any good business school professor, Eisenmann comes prepared with an armload of case studies.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Her mother came down the stairs with an armload of linens, dragged the old crib out of the unfinished half of the cellar, and took the plastic sheeting off it.
    Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The incident took place in late April at its store in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Cellphone footage from the store shows two men wearing hoodies and face masks rush into the store and grab armloads of merchandise from areas closest to the entrance of the store and then rush out.
    Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 25 July 2023
  • Pat Collins was on the scene, reporting that one of the kids spotted the intruder with an armload of their belongings.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • People rushed into a Nike store in Manhattan and carried out armloads of clothing.
    Author: Jennifer Peltz and Karen Matthews, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020
  • Thieves also stocked up on free groceries at an Aldi, ransacking the discount grocer and leaving with armloads of produce and meat.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • That armload of lights has been covering the inside and outside of my home for the past few weeks, which has made holiday decorating easier.
    Nena Farrell, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2023
  • O’Neill starts many days on the road at Trader Joe’s, buying armloads of fresh flowers and bags of grapes, artichokes, limes and baked goods.
    Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 10 June 2017
  • Then their oldest son, Tilden (Paul Sparks), enters bearing an armload of corn, fresh picked from a backyard that his parents know full well has been barren for years.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016
  • Someone had entered the apartment next door, taken a random armload of the tenant’s belongings — photo albums, a doormat, a shoe holder — and dumped it all with the garbage in the basement.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Sydney Torres, 22, who works at the nearby Mirage, seemed lost carrying an armload of sunflowers.
    Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • GoPro is the solution for anyone who wants to capture their outdoor experience without having to carry armloads of gear into the field or on the water.
    Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Plant the following summer-flowering hydrangeas to enjoy armloads of flowers in July and August.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Once upon a time, style savvy New Yorkers could venture out and arrive back to their apartments toting an armload of shopping bags, each stuffed with its own sartorial treasures.
    Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021

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