How to Use cargo in a Sentence

cargo

noun

• The ship was carrying a cargo of crude oil.
• The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the Atlantic in March.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2022
• Dex gives him mouth-to-mouth to revive him and then … leaves him on the cargo ship.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
• The wave-free beach where each view of the ocean must include a cargo ship or an oil well.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
• In Tampa Bay, cargo ships are moving in and out of the port.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2022
• The vessel sank like a stone, weighed down by its double cargo—the wreck of a wreck.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022
• Corsets and pants — whether cargo style or low-slung — were a major trend in the early 2000s.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• The third row can be folded down to create a large cargo area.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Some Gulf and East Coast ports are still seeing surges in cargo.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• Gaspare hops aboard a cargo ship in East Asia that’s bound for South Africa.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
• The backup of cargo ships off the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been cleared.
  — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
• In the days ahead, the list of essential cargo will expand.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Load the Sequoia’s three rows and there’s less than 12 cubic feet of cargo space.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
• Donley’s purview skews toward the macros — the trunks, the trucks, the carriage of cargo across a network of crews and depots.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• The cargo area offers 20 cubic feet of space with the rear seats up, 55 cubic feet.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Doc had been waiting at the motel for about six hours when a cargo van pulled up.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The cargo rate from St. Louis southward is now up 77% above the three-year average.
  — Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The rear cargo area will swallow 13 cubic feet of junk.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 Oct. 2022
• The rule would first kick in for drayage trucks, which move cargo between ports and warehouses up and down the state.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
• Five armed men fled the cargo ship by small boat but were later captured.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• The cargo and troop transport plane is the largest aircraft in the Air Force and, at seven stories tall, the tallest aircraft in the world.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2022
• One of her looks features a shearling trench, cargo shorts, and a pair of slip-on UGGs.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Sep. 2023
• The spots should be big enough to fit any size vehicle from a compact sedan to a cargo van.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Fold down the third row for 46 cubic feet of cargo space; fold down both rows for 86 cubic feet.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
• Trucks rumble along the lone paved road with goods piled six feet high and passengers tucked in among the cargo.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• The amount of land set aside for cargo storage has almost doubled in size since the turn of the century.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
• And that rear seat can be folded flat to produce the same whopping 50 cubic feet of cargo room as in the five-door.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
• The Impreza’s rear seat/cargo room is also bigger than the Mazda to hold more Paynes and their stuff.
  — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• But the consequences may still be widespread due to the sheer amount of cargo involved.
  — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• SpaceX envisions the spacecraft as being a fully reusable transportation system that can carry both humans and cargo to Earth's orbit, the moon and even Mars.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Mar 2025