How to Use unload in a Sentence

unload

verb
  • It took four hours to unload the truck.
  • Could you help me unload the car?
  • I have to unload the groceries.
  • She unloaded a huge amount of stock when prices fell.
  • After the ship docked, they unloaded its cargo.
  • The train made several stops to unload passengers.
  • Most ships unload at another dock now.
  • Rumor has it that the manager wants to unload him. Maybe he'll be traded to another team.
  • These are the workers who load and unload ships at the port.
    Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Broad had been trying to unload the home for the last two years.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • All of the ladies join together to build the fire, load and unload the pots.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 28 July 2020
  • Here, my dad would unload the boat and guide it onto the lake.
    Tiffany Johnson, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Others helped unload the baggage car near the front of the train.
    Amy Beth Hanson, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The church is in need of volunteers to help unload the truck.
    Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • This is the signal that the bus is stopped to load or unload children.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
  • May walked out of the home as the truck was being unloaded.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Somebody has to clean the carcasses, drive the trucks and unload the haul.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • He’s not one to call up a friend and unload his emotions.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Hickey then unloaded them with a triple over the head of the right fielder to up the lead to 8-1.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
  • The server then comes to the table to unload the food onto the table.
    Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • One of those planes unloaded Delevett, Lam, and their cousins.
    Jennifer Brookland, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Stretch can reach up to 10 feet inside of a truck to pick up and unload boxes up to 50 pounds each.
    Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • There are a lot of trailers out there that need to be unloaded.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
  • With no space at the port, ships can’t unload, and the goods people are demanding cannot make it to the stores.
    Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But Philippe won’t have to make landfall in order to unload strong wind gusts and heavy rain.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What would the Heat have to give up to get Ben Simmons, now that people are calling for the 76ers to unload him?
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 22 June 2021
  • There, an army of volunteers was waiting to help unload the dogs and get them to their new homes.
    CBS News, 23 Aug. 2020
  • White vans and box trucks pulled to the curb on Ninth Avenue and unloaded crates of broccoli and olive oil.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • What will happen to her when people can no longer unload their worst—and have to actually live with themselves?
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025
  • Autonomous delivery robots are already starting to change the way goods move around cities and warehouses, but most still need humans to load and unload their cargo.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025

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