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
• The order to unload the trucks did not come from Jack Cooper or the Teamsters.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
• 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
• Their role in the operation was to unload the pallet boxes and remove the drugs from among the cucumbers, court papers say.
  — Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 July 2025