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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
In fewer than 15 minutes, two separate carloads of people pulled up to the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez last Saturday.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
In the paper, BNSF highlighted that a merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would control 45 percent of existing freight, citing STB metrics that also indicated that the combined company would move 46 percent of containers and have 43 percent market share of total carload volumes.
Adding insult to injury, Argentina has suspended its export tax and was rewarded with Chinese orders last month for 20 shiploads of soybeans, deepening a market downturn for American growers.
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Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
But shiploads of Chinese passengers continued to journey across the ocean, finding ways around the law.
Following the outage, the wholesale price of gas shot up by about 25 to 30 cents a gallon, forcing stations to pay about $2,000 more per truckload of gas, De Haan said.
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Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
This is not something that anyone at Westland will say, but there has been quite a bit of press and publicity surrounding the theft, which comes on the heels of a truckload of Santo Tequila being hijacked about a year ago.
This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters.
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Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
The longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the risk of cargo backups at these Texas ports due to unpaid employees calling in sick.
Coach Willow Tote Bag Amazon’s October Prime Day sale has boatloads of standout deals, but this Coach bag is peaking my interest above all the others.
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Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Grier has hit on some trades that were not made on draft day (dealing Larry Tunsil to Houston for a boatload of picks, acquiring Jalen Ramsey and Tyreek Hill, among others).
From there, the artworks were shuffled all at once to a freight elevator, and then moved into the exhibition hall, which can be seen on video surveillance.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
All the works were moved in a single, continuous movement from the van to a freight elevator that took all the transportation company employees at once from floor -1 to floor 1, the center said.
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