How to Use payload in a Sentence

payload

noun

• The truck is carrying a payload of 2,580 pounds.
• That is less than the payload of any of our three Sputniks.
  — Dan Q. Posin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021
• This will cool its payload of vapor and kick off weeks and waves of rain and snow.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• The worst thing is that these payloads of bad stuff leave no trace behind.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
• It is designed to carry a payload of 95 tons to low-earth orbit, and 26 tons all the way to the Moon.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• SpaceX alone doubled the rest of the world in the amount of payload delivered to orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
• The craft can fly for up to 25 miles, depending on the payload and the conditions.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2022
• The stage and payload fly off course and crash into the Pacific Ocean.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• And that gives you indications around the payload and speed and range.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• That kind of payload has the potential to drain power and range.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2021
• At that point, the next stage ignites and carries the payload toward space.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• And these rockets, by the way, have more payload, more range and and were more effective.
  — CBS News, 23 June 2021
• Before that, SpaceX had not lost a payload with the Falcon 9 in nearly a decade.
  — Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
• The Spectrum rocket is intended to launch a payload with a mass of up to 1 ton to LEO.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
• The payload also matters in the risk assessment of whether to launch or not.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2020
• That two-year mission will include a series of tests of the 24 payloads aboard the SpaDex spacecraft.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
• Once the Peregrine lander has safely landed on the moon, the Iris rover will drop from its payload deck in the center.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
• This time, the customer is the U.S. Space Force and the payload — a spy satellite of some sort? — is strictly classified.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The drones have a roughly nine-mile range, depending on payload size.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• Its squeeze is weak and can pump only a fraction of its usual payload of blood into the body.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• No one was on board the New Glenn flight, which carried a single small test payload into space.
  — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
• At such speeds, the U.S. president — or any payload — could travel anywhere in the world in less than an hour.
  — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2021
• Then came 5,000 miles of normal highway driving with a full payload and towed loads.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
• The payload was the main module of its first permanent space station.
  — Fox News, 4 May 2021
• Instead, the device cut the balloon loose before the payload was even attached.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• The drives installed a payload Mandiant has dubbed explorerps1.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024
• That projectile, its nose cone wheeled to the launchpad by a bicycle, put a small payload 124 miles above the Earth.
  — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• According to the caller, a bullet hole was found in the payload the drone was carrying.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Maximum payload capacity is eight pounds, and payloads can be delivered up to about 10 miles away.
  — Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
• The giant rocket, whose last two test launches ended with explosions in flight, has roughly four times the payload capacity of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025