trainload

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Recent Examples of trainload 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainload
Noun
  • Three carloads of Crips headed for Club 662.
    Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fans have been given a wagonload of Duttons since Costner blazed the trail.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Soon 300,000 copies were in circulation, generating plaudits and hate mail by the wagonload.
    James Marcus, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • But shiploads of Chinese passengers continued to journey across the ocean, finding ways around the law.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Giuliani said the fabric was initially used by sailors to cover shiploads, produce sails and eventually worn as workwear.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Because his guys have swallowed a truckload of Lindsay olives.
    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.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Dream Chaser is designed to deliver cargo and eventually people to orbit, landing as gently as a commercial airliner.
    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.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sagapolutele, one of a boatload of questions about this team entering the season, emphatically answered with an impressive debut performance.
    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.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    John Buckingham, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainload. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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