How to Use freight in a Sentence

freight

1 of 2 noun

• The order was shipped by freight.
• The freight arrived by steamboat.
• More freight is moved on trucks than on trains, and much more is stolen off trucks, too.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• This freight bottleneck is a thing of the past.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2026
• For freight, trains will be faster and sustainable.
  — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• In freight, the pressure was more concrete.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026
• Texas has self-driving big rigs hauling freight and goods all over the state.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Like the ocean rates, air freight rates out of the region have fallen in kind.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
• About $2 million worth of freight crosses the bridge each day.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• The freight market was beginning to show signs of growth.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
• Sand said the rapid deployment of freight orders stoked ocean freight rates.
  — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
• Air freight, while faster, is expensive for large shipments.
  — Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Almost none hover over train tracks, let alone one of the country’s busiest freight lines.
  — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 14 Jan. 2026
• Is this the official end of the multi-year bear market in freight?
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 July 2026
• Reduced volumes are having a stark impact on air freight rates on the trade lane.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Sep. 2025
• The cost of moving goods across borders is no longer about freight and tariffs only.
  — Andreas Schweitzer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Delays of around two to three days are expected for all air freight shipments.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
• Go take on the full freight of Devers’ contract.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
• These secure sites are frequently near rail and freight centers, as well as ports.
  — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• The industry is high-stakes, and things often go wrong when moving freight.
  — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Drewry expects freight rates to decline further in the coming weeks.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
• Watch the full video above to learn more about why the nation's largest rail union has come out against the freight mega-merger.
  — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2025
• As for air freight, rates on the trans-Pacific route are inching up again.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
• At the time, the government had exemptions for sea freight, but not air freight.
  — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Dec. 2025
• Hundreds of ships patiently lined up for days while the world’s freight traffic just stopped?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• No other metro has freight rail infrastructure at this scale.
  — Stuart Loren, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
• An up-and-down freight picture has been the story in 2025.
  — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
• The freight scale in the Ludlow Room of Katz's Deli.
  — John Dias, CBS News, 26 May 2026
• Kent said 22 cars carrying the freight were derailed and that at least four cars caught fire.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Fuel and freight surcharges will also be reimbursed through the rest of the year.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 16 June 2023

freight

2 of 2 verb

• And if too many fashion titles come freighted with the ego of whomever put them out, that’s not the case here.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• The distinctive, whitish stone is freighted with meaning for Katz.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• In the summer, catching halibut offers a way to earn cash with fish that are cleaned and air-freighted to market.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• It was taken apart and air-freighted to South Africa, where it was reassembled.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• But rather than freight the music with the weight of tragedy, Sorey opted toward extreme lightness.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• As in Julius Caesar, every move is freighted, every word watched.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The lines remain so powerful because they are freighted with the knowledge that the speaker will soon be dead.
  — Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
• That night was freighted with meaning; a win could set the team up for potential advancement, while a loss could dim those hopes.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2026
• All that freighted with significance the moment of their first greeting.
  — Author: Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• Once ignored, it is suddenly freighted with meaning.
  — Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
• But that option is freighted with risk in the ever-volatile world of conference realignment.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• This new system has to be manufactured for the building, freighted in, and installed.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Birthday best wishes rarely come freighted with so much significance.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• But the frenzied inflation of this story, like so much that involves the Bidens, is freighted with both dread and grief.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• When Hall purchased the site, it was already freighted with a — mostly — underground garage.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• With these songs, the maestro figured out how to freight the breeze with an impossible amount of information.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• Also crucial is that Frantz’s name comes freighted with the site of his killing, that sore-thumb t doing much to stress the parallel.
  — Leo Robson, Newsweek, 4 May 2017
• Onion tells his story at age 103—aware that his racial identity is freighted by history.
  — WSJ, 1 June 2018
• Daniel shapes sentences made of modal, but his neat trick is that, at the same time, they are freighted with knowledge, observation, and feeling.
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• The years of teenage rebellion had been particularly freighted for both.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• Some of the dialogue Peter has to speak is freighted with clunky exposition.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• But not all dumb dumb culture is entirely disposable, and not all escapism needs to be freighted with meaning to justify its place.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
• As dazzling as that was, the timing of Xu’s speech also freighted the topic with geopolitical import.
  — Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
• That’s one reason why his new project, Still Dreaming, comes freighted with such intense expectations.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2017
• Everything feels so weighted and freighted with significance and dignity that the picture never gets the chance to breathe.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Rarely, if ever, has a single congressional race attracted this much attention or been freighted with so much meaning.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2017
• So the re-opening and renovation—a new dining room, a new kitchen, a new menu, and those new uniforms—is freighted with anticipation.
  — Max Berlinger, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Typical of rape survivors, black women were freighted with a particular kind of animus.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
• The ones in her work are freighted, conjuring up conflicting notions of black femininity and power, along with the sheer creepiness of stray hair.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The moment, however, was freighted with a mixed bag of emotions for both the actress and other Black Americans.
  — Kyle Swenson, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023