How to Use busload in a Sentence

busload

noun

• So border agents open the gates and bring migrants through the wall by the busload.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Monday’s arrivals are the ninth busload of people to be sent to the city since June.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The busload of tourists saw her and basically drooped over the side of the bus screaming her name!
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2024
• Police were hauling Black youths off to state prison camps by the busload.
  — USA Today, 20 May 2021
• The beaches are a short drive away and water parks hold summer camp kids by the busload.
  — Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
• Then there’s that busload of dead people in a later episode.
  — Austin Considine, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• Second trip later in the year was like a busload of fans there, but the Queen was regal and calm as ever.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• Busloads of tourists come to pet and feed cubs, play with tigers, walk them on leashes, and take selfies with a tiger’s head in their lap.
  — Sharon Guynup, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2016
• In July, a busload of 16 people was kidnapped in the northern city of Gros-Morne.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
• Throughout the school year, it is often filled with busloads of children on field trips.
  — Eric Adler and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 18 May 2018
• The next day, the hotel received two busloads of people from the city, according to the complaint.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 13 May 2023
• That was the moment a busload of U.S. Marines happened to be passing nearby.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021
• In front of the busload of children, the man stabbed the driver, who was rushed to a hospital but later died of his injuries.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• The first busload of migrants arrived in Chicago on Aug. 31.
  — Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Absent a busload of big names, the event is focusing on the First Amendment and the crucial role of the press in a democracy.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• As many as 30 busloads of people will be coming from Dallas to protest, Dar said.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2019
• The first busload of students -- a group of seniors -- arrived at the Capitol on Monday, the first day of classes since the walkout.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• By the end of the 40-Week Siege, protesters were literally coming in by the busload.
  — As Told To MacAela MacKenzie, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2018
• We are sent to Namibia (where Pepe’s parents hailed from) in the 1970s with a busload of gawking German tourists on a safari tour.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• Their lair was the sort of natural marvel that might welcome busloads of tourists in a place better known.
  — Henry Wismayer, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• Last year, leaders there prepared for the arrival of a busload of migrants, but that did not happen.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Busloads of tourists stop by the home to snap pictures, blocking traffic in the quiet village of Argyll.
  — Caroline Picard, House Beautiful, 15 Aug. 2016
• In a funny twist, a busload of Japanese tourists show up on the night of the grand reopening, and the staff has to feed all of them even after the kitchen runs out of fresh fish.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 9 Jan. 2018
• In nearby Tiberias, on the edge of the Sea of Galilee, explosions could be heard above the music of bars entertaining busloads of tourists.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2018
• The latest busload of migrants from Texas arrived in D.C. late Tuesday night.
  — Elizabeth Heckman, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Two more busloads arrived on Tuesday and four more on Wednesday.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• In April, cops in Georgia pulled over a busload of mostly Black college athletes for the most specious of reasons.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• Eerily quiet at times, though a busload of pub-hoppers can take it from a quiet buzz to a cacophonous crowd in a heartbeat.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 6 June 2018
• Nor are there busloads of asylum-seekers emptying into the streets of downtown Greenville.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
• The Big Apple’s order also requires that 32-hours notice be given before incoming busloads of migrants arrive within the five boroughs.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024