How to Use payload in a Sentence

payload

noun

• The truck is carrying a payload of 2,580 pounds.
• The trigger sees the event, creates the payload and runs.
  — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
• That is less than the payload of any of our three Sputniks.
  — Dan Q. Posin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021
• This will cool its payload of vapor and kick off weeks and waves of rain and snow.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• The worst thing is that these payloads of bad stuff leave no trace behind.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
• It is designed to carry a payload of 95 tons to low-earth orbit, and 26 tons all the way to the Moon.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• SpaceX alone doubled the rest of the world in the amount of payload delivered to orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
• There's a lot of satellites or payloads, and there's a lot of good reason to get weight out of those.
  — Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
• The craft can fly for up to 25 miles, depending on the payload and the conditions.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2022
• The bot can handle a payload of up to 30.9 pounds, which can be attached to two T-Slot rails on the top of the torso.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 June 2020
• The stage and payload fly off course and crash into the Pacific Ocean.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The site will be revealed just weeks ahead of launch, and the payload itself within days.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• And that gives you indications around the payload and speed and range.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• That kind of payload has the potential to drain power and range.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2021
• At that point, the next stage ignites and carries the payload toward space.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• And these rockets, by the way, have more payload, more range and and were more effective.
  — CBS News, 23 June 2021
• Any of those short shells, as a bonus, packs a perfect light payload for woodcock.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
• The team will launch a third test payload in December and a couple more next spring.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2019
• Before that, SpaceX had not lost a payload with the Falcon 9 in nearly a decade.
  — Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
• The Spectrum rocket is intended to launch a payload with a mass of up to 1 ton to LEO.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
• Its payload is just too large for lesser gauges to compare to.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 27 July 2020
• The payload also matters in the risk assessment of whether to launch or not.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2020
• That two-year mission will include a series of tests of the 24 payloads aboard the SpaDex spacecraft.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
• To transport a ton of payload from Berlin to New York would require about 52 tons of fuel.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2020
• And the Humvee could do all this while carrying a tremendous 2,500-pound payload.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2020
• Once the Peregrine lander has safely landed on the moon, the Iris rover will drop from its payload deck in the center.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
• This time, the customer is the U.S. Space Force and the payload — a spy satellite of some sort? — is strictly classified.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The drones have a roughly nine-mile range, depending on payload size.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The payload consists of multi-spectral cameras, long range radar and anti-jamming GPS.
  — Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The other secondary payloads are scheduled to be deployed about 69 minutes after launch.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025