How to Use freight in a Sentence

freight

1 of 2 noun

• The order was shipped by freight.
• The freight arrived by steamboat.
• There's also the amount of freight movement across the bridge.
  — Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• The plane has been used as a freight aircraft for Atlas Air.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• About $2 million worth of freight crosses the bridge each day.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• More freight is moved on trucks than on trains, and much more is stolen off trucks, too.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The freight boom that had drawn him into trucking was starting to ebb.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Texas has self-driving big rigs hauling freight and goods all over the state.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Kent said 22 cars carrying the freight were derailed and that at least four cars caught fire.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Fuel and freight surcharges will also be reimbursed through the rest of the year.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 16 June 2023
• Hundreds of ships patiently lined up for days while the world’s freight traffic just stopped?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• On the horizon is the prospect of another disruption to the nation’s freight system.
  — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Given a standard freight-car length of 50 or 60 feet, the colossus stretches out to nearly two-thirds the span of a football field.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Shell said a normal barge freight rate from New Orleans to Van Buren would be between $16 and $20 per ton.
  — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
• Does the United States really ship more freight on trains than rail-crazy Europe?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The Coromandel Express hit the freight, which was carrying a heavy payload of iron ore, at 80 mph.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2023
• Sometimes the manufacturer adds that on top as a freight charge.
  — Alexis Davies, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• For the last eight decades, CSX freight railroad company has shut down the 110 miles of track to hand out holiday gifts to children in Appalachia.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• Both were rebuilt quickly because Fort Worth was a rail hub for both passenger and freight.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• Services such as flights and freight could become more expensive since those include the use of fuel.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• The pair owns the portion of the lot immediately west, which includes the former train depot and freight buildings.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2023
• And among its freight were the animals Pi’s zookeeper father tended.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Ukrzaliznytsia is the sixth largest rail passenger transporter in the world, and seventh for freight.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• With the new deep-water port, big barges will be able to deliver larger loads of fuel and products to the city’s doorsteps, and the freight cost is expected to reduce.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of times a year, gargantuan vessels like this one, laden with containers of freight, had eased beneath the Key, bound for open ocean and ports around the globe.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• After all, Illinois is still today the only state where all major freight railways meet.
  — Isis Almeida, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• On the decrepit freight tracks looming above the buildings near 10th Avenue, little stirred except squeaking bats.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Curt says Larry got into stealing cars, then robbing rail freight.
  — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• In 1952, the company was purchased out of bankruptcy and transformed into a long-haul freight service.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Train companies, themselves in a downward spiral of cost cutting and reduced personnel, aren’t doing a very good job of securing their freight.
  — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2024

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freight

2 of 2 verb

• And if too many fashion titles come freighted with the ego of whomever put them out, that’s not the case here.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• But the frenzied inflation of this story, like so much that involves the Bidens, is freighted with both dread and grief.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• It was taken apart and air-freighted to South Africa, where it was reassembled.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• In the summer, catching halibut offers a way to earn cash with fish that are cleaned and air-freighted to market.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• The distinctive, whitish stone is freighted with meaning for Katz.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Also crucial is that Frantz’s name comes freighted with the site of his killing, that sore-thumb t doing much to stress the parallel.
  — Leo Robson, Newsweek, 4 May 2017
• But rather than freight the music with the weight of tragedy, Sorey opted toward extreme lightness.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• The lines remain so powerful because they are freighted with the knowledge that the speaker will soon be dead.
  — Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
• As in Julius Caesar, every move is freighted, every word watched.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Even Black creators like Thomas, Bennett said, can’t help but freight their stories about Black kids with the horrors of racial injustice.
  — Howard Bryant, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
• When Hall purchased the site, it was already freighted with a — mostly — underground garage.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• Daniel shapes sentences made of modal, but his neat trick is that, at the same time, they are freighted with knowledge, observation, and feeling.
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• This new system has to be manufactured for the building, freighted in, and installed.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• But that option is freighted with risk in the ever-volatile world of conference realignment.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• All that freighted with significance the moment of their first greeting.
  — Author: Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• The moment, however, was freighted with a mixed bag of emotions for both the actress and other Black Americans.
  — Kyle Swenson, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Now the Warriors are a modern dynasty and both the 76ers and the Celtics are young, rising teams, freighted with history, but liberated by it, too.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Some of the dialogue Peter has to speak is freighted with clunky exposition.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The decision whether to allow the meeting to proceed in New York is now freighted with more than the usual complications.
  — Jane Perlez, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2017
• With these songs, the maestro figured out how to freight the breeze with an impossible amount of information.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• But this was only the second time Smith had come close enough for his head to be shaved, a ritual freighted with awful meaning for the men on death row at Wethersfield State Prison.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• While the meaning of those 13 words — 16 Chinese characters — may seem opaque, they are freighted with significance for the future both of the party and of China.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Onion tells his story at age 103—aware that his racial identity is freighted by history.
  — WSJ, 1 June 2018
• The most anodyne events are freighted with the possibility of, well, anything.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• But since then, Russia has hit several key lines, compromising Ukraine’s ability to freight its grain out of the country.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• The years of teenage rebellion had been particularly freighted for both.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• So the re-opening and renovation—a new dining room, a new kitchen, a new menu, and those new uniforms—is freighted with anticipation.
  — Max Berlinger, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Everything feels so weighted and freighted with significance and dignity that the picture never gets the chance to breathe.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• The trains chugging along the ancient Silk Road through this gateway city to the West are growing in numbers and freighted with geopolitical significance.
  — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 11 May 2017
• No foodstuffs are air freighted in, and nearly everything—from cheese, to bread, to miso, to kombucha, to butter—is made in-house from local ingredients.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024