How to Use carrying capacity in a Sentence

carrying capacity

noun

• The new Fat Albert will have a longer range and greater carrying capacity, allowing it to carry more of the team’s equipment.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2019
• As a result, some sections of the canal have seen their carrying capacity reduced by more than 50%.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• And the dirt-carrying capacity of all these vacuums is rather small.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2020
• The system boasts a very high carrying capacity, capable of loading up to four kayaks, with a total weight over 300 pounds.
  — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2022
• The tiny dip could have been a statistical anomaly or a sign the richest eagle habitat in the state has reached carrying capacity.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
• Harpoon missiles to knock out 72% of such a fleet’s tank-carrying capacity.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Bradley insists the transportation plan must consider the canyon’s carrying capacity, or how many people can use the canyon at any one time.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021
• Where the vegetation of the great African plateau is replaced by crop plants, many soils either set rock-hard or erode, and carrying capacity declines.
  — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2010
• Two-engine jets burn less fuel yet grew to closely match the 747’s carrying capacity.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• Ford also said that the tire on the truck had the incorrect load-carrying capacity, which led it to fail, and the Hills had improperly used their seat belts, according to the court documents.
  — Nora Eckert, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• Slashing public services to the bone will create long-term damage to the economy, and therefore to the debt-carrying capacity of the American state.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 29 Oct. 2020
• The loss of about 5% of its fleet is causing Southwest to take the unusual step of shrinking rather than growing its passenger-carrying capacity.
  — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
• In women’s events from the 400 to the mile, which combine speed and endurance, the I.A.A.F. has argued that athletes with testosterone in the male range gain an unfair advantage in muscle strength and oxygen-carrying capacity.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 30 July 2019
• Keep it compact with the 12 oz tumbler or increase your beverage carrying capacity with the 28 oz tumbler.
  — Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2022
• Tests showed that the prototype’s load-carrying capacity was 20% better, even though its cross-section was 15% smaller.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Phillips is able shoot so many deer a year because Fairfax County has deer populations that far exceed the area’s carrying capacity.
  — Alex Robinson & Natalie Krebs/outdoor Life, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2020
• Cosco Shipping, the world’s third-biggest box-ship operator, has removed 10% of its carrying capacity on the route since the end of last summer after the first U.S. tariffs were introduced.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 25 June 2019
• The 17-year-old must have a big heart, considering her oxygen-carrying capacity.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
• Scientists at that time thought gray whales had hit carrying capacity — that there were too many whales for the ecosystem to support — and the extended sea ice might have prevented them from reaching their feeding grounds.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2021
• The Mission Plank Road was so popular that demand stretched its carrying capacity.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• The small drone has a limited carrying capacity, but can certainly carry a Vog-17 grenade, widely used by Ukrainian forces including the 93rd Brigade as a drone bomb from quadcopters.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• In some cases, the losses brought populations in line with the natural carrying capacity of the native rangeland.
  — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2020
• Yandex has increased the dimensions and carrying capacity of the Rovers over time, to accommodate larger loads.
  — Greg Gardner, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• That’s nearly 5% of Southwest’s fleet and 8% of the airline’s passenger-carrying capacity.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• This is especially important for mountain climbers, who must adapt to altitude in order to help their body increase the oxygen carrying capacity in the blood.
  — Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
• The population is reduced from previous decades but remains close to the lake's carrying capacity given a number of big system changes.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• But this does not negate the broader point that animals generally move up to the carrying capacity of the local ecosystem rather quickly because of the nature of natural increase.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2010
• Commissioner Bobby Martin of Little Rock said that the number of deer killed suggests deer are close to the habitat's carrying capacity, or its ability to support them.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2021
• This is important, since some athletes draw their own blood days or weeks before an event, store it, then reinfuse it to increase their blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity, which boosts physical performance.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2019
• This is the definition of carrying capacity and our current population appears to be behaving as a healthy stable population.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024