How to Use trainload in a Sentence

trainload

noun

• The plant would recycle trainloads of steel dust, a hazardous waste.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
• Plants that make feed for the cattle receive ingredients by the trainload.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• Trainloads of artichokes heading across the continent were no less safe.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
• One of the company’s assets was a trainload of coal, over a million dollars’ worth, at the Cloverlick No.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• At Birkenau, about 15% of each trainload were chosen by SS officers to join work squads.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
• Within months, roads were laid and trainloads of construction materials arrived in this once-quiet landscape.
  — Emily Strasser, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2018
• The creation of low-pressure tubes carrying trainloads of commuters at speeds approaching 760 mph.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• Taxes levied on the vast trainloads of coal hauled to power plants across the West means the state has never had an income tax, and its sales taxes are among the nation's lowest.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020
• But the fateful Glenrowan showdown with an incoming trainload of cops doesn't go as planned, as anyone familiar with the bushranger's legend will know.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
• Likewise, a sequence in which the trio and a trainload of passengers traverse Italy, until a trestle very close to collapse interrupts their journey.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• The excursions also are a boost to local communities, literally bringing trainloads of tourists.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2019
• Some say the trainloads of New Yorkers’ excrement is turning Alabama into a dumping ground for other states’ waste.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• Some say the trainloads of New Yorkers' excrement is turning Alabama into a dumping ground for other states' waste.
  — Jeff Martin and Jay Reeves, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
• Among the rumors were from people reporting seeing large trainloads of military vehicles in Wisconsin to enforce quarantines.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2020
• Prosecutors said Groening — who did not kill anyone himself while working at Auschwitz — had helped support the regime responsible for mass murder by sorting bank notes seized from trainloads of arriving Jews.
  — NBC News, 15 Jan. 2018
• The discord comes as Orlando faces mounting political pressure to get rid of OUC’s flagship power plants that burn trainloads of coal, adding to emissions of climate-heating greenhouse gases.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• Andersonville was not created until February 1864, but in the months that followed, as many as 90 trainloads, containing 75 men to a boxcar, soon established its unprecedented scale.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
• Seeing China as its new dependency, Moscow sent thousands of Soviet engineers and workers and trainloads of manufacturing equipment during the 1950s.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2019