How to Use off-load in a Sentence

off-load

verb

• Nor did the Samaritan off-load the injured man onto a local healer.
  — Meghan Sullivan, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
• The plant would use the rail yard to load and off-load raw materials, according to city zoning documents.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
• The canister was still wedged in my crotch, off-loading its contents like a homemade Roman candle.
  — Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• It’s designed specifically for smartphone users who want an easy way to off-load their photographs and videos to a personal cloud.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2017
• As a result of the mismatch between buyers and sellers in these six cities, sellers are adjusting their expectations and cutting prices to off-load their properties.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• Under those guidelines, farmers who want to retire or off-load unproductive bogs without selling to developers can instead convert their land to wetlands with the help of the state.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2025
• Off-loading tasks such as writing code might result in cognitive atrophy over the long term, and that is problematic in itself, but off-loading ethical decisions will result in an atrophy of moral reasoning, which is worse.
  — Ted Chiang, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
• The lawsuit accuses the park of negligence, including failing to ensure that the ride was operating properly and failing to train ride attendants on how to off-load guests when the ride doesn’t fully enter its off-loading platform.
  — Eve Chen, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
• In contrast, the Ally Solos Glasses off-load processing to the user's smartphone, making the glasses significantly lighter and more comfortable.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• But lately, the tide has gone the other way, with Caruso recently off-loaded to MondeVita Italy, 13 years after Fosun made its first investment in the brand.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Shumet Amdemichael, the director of the nonprofit Mercy Corps’ Nigeria programs, told me that his organization may off-load generators to local hospitals.
  — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
• Following quickly on the heels of spinning off Versant Media earlier this year, Comcast is now off-loading the entirety of NBCUniversal.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• The report describes a kind of doom loop of AI dependence, where students increasingly off-load their own thinking onto the technology, leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
• Anthropic has raised concerns over students off-loading cognitive work to AI systems, and OpenAI has acknowledged that dependence on AI tools more generally is a problem.
  — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
• The transaction contained fundamental flaws, and AT&T eventually reversed course by off-loading WarnerMedia and combining it with Discovery.
  — Paul Hardart, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
• But in subsequent years, as Giuliani’s reputation and finances plummeted amid numerous lawsuits and legal cases — at one point, his lawyer told the court Giuliani had $57,000 in unpaid phone bills, which doesn’t even seem possible — he was forced to off-load his real estate to raise cash.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025
• Portfolio Arbitrage Accelerated After a quiet first-half 2025, M&A activity in beauty ramped up, as companies look to either off-load underperforming businesses or add brands for inorganic portfolio expansion.
  — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026