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Recent Examples of trainloadSoon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year.—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023 Modern-day Vanderbilts should expect a trainload of paperwork.—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2023 In the waning days of the war, in April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with a trainload of what was left of the Confederate treasury in gold and silver.—Washington Post, 2 May 2022 Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for trainload
The formation of an intercontinental railroad would ideally cut down transit times, particularly by reducing interchange points, where carloads and containers are moved from one railroad to the other.
Because his guys have swallowed a truckload of Lindsay olives.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
About a year ago, North Beach was seeded with about 37,000 cubic yards of sand from the Santa Ana River, with truckloads hauling the material in and spreading it out.
The Dream Chaser is designed to deliver cargo and eventually people to orbit, landing as gently as a commercial airliner.
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Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
The average cargo ship produces a steady rumble between about 20 and 200 hertz, roughly the same low-frequency band as a bass speaker, at a volume that’s on par with a chainsaw at close range.
Sagapolutele, one of a boatload of questions about this team entering the season, emphatically answered with an impressive debut performance.
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Jeff Faraudo,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
Over the next 10 days, boatloads of A-list talent will disembark for what is set to be the most high-wattage celebration of cinema on the Lido in recent memory.
Falling freight rates have been a byproduct of the slowing container demand, with Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) measuring a 3 percent weekly decline to $2,044 per 40-foot container.
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Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
11 Sep. 2025
But the team has mitigated what would have been an unmanageable $180 million hit by rebalancing sourcing away from China, renegotiating vendor terms and optimizing freight.
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