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Recent Examples of trainloadFrom midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived.—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024 Soon 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 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
Illinois is the nation’s rail hub, ranking first among the states in rail tons and rail carloads moved; half of all container railcars in the nation flow through Chicago.
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Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
When the carloads of masked men showed up outside, these strangers chased them away with whistles.
Experts with knowledge on the transaction told Reuters that the purchase volume was small, only amounting to 3 cargoes, or shiploads, of soybeans, and that demand for the crop from the U.S. isn’t expected to significantly increase in the near future after recent large purchases from South America.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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.
Shipping industry leaders also say roughly 10% of container ships operating around the world are stuck in the strait, while United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which tracks security at sea, said in an advisory note Thursday that only two cargo vessels had passed in the 24 hours prior.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
Major ship lines Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd have stopped accepting most cargo destined for the Persian Gulf countries.
Drug traffickers moved into Cancún in the late 1990s, buying up mansions for themselves and using the secluded coasts of the state, Quintana Roo, to receive boatloads of Colombian cocaine.
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Mary Beth Sheridan,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
Flooding is bad for real estate values, and coastal cities like New York are due for a boatload of sea level rise.
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Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026