How to Use payload in a Sentence

payload

noun
  • The truck is carrying a payload of 2,580 pounds.
  • The trigger sees the event, creates the payload and runs.
    Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Any of those short shells, as a bonus, packs a perfect light payload for woodcock.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • And the Humvee could do all this while carrying a tremendous 2,500-pound payload.
    Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Rocket Lab's launcher, Electron, can place payloads of up to a few hundred pounds into orbit.
    ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Featuring special vibration-damping propellers that fold in when not in use, the aircraft can lift payloads of up to 15 kg (33 lb).
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2025

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