How to Use payload in a Sentence

payload

noun

• The truck is carrying a payload of 2,580 pounds.
• 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
• SpaceX alone doubled the rest of the world in the amount of payload delivered to orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
• The craft can fly for up to 25 miles, depending on the payload and the conditions.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2022
• The stage and payload fly off course and crash into the Pacific Ocean.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Its squeeze is weak and can pump only a fraction of its usual payload of blood into the body.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Then came 5,000 miles of normal highway driving with a full payload and towed loads.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
• Instead, the device cut the balloon loose before the payload was even attached.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• The drives installed a payload Mandiant has dubbed explorerps1.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024
• That projectile, its nose cone wheeled to the launchpad by a bicycle, put a small payload 124 miles above the Earth.
  — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• According to the caller, a bullet hole was found in the payload the drone was carrying.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• That, in turn, opens those naval and ground forces up to using a more capable drone with a larger payload.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2022
• It may be beefed up a bit to help with towing and payload capacity.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
• The limits are lower for flights with customer payloads.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• The rocket and payload are set to roll out to Space Launch Complex-41 today and a launch readiness review is coming up on May 11.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2022
• In the first video, Vasquez stands beside the drone, while holding the payload: an RPG warhead weighing a couple of kilos.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Its second stage, which has now completed its testing, carries the payload past the edge of space.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 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
• When cops do capture a drug plane, its crew and payload disappear.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2022
• This file, in turn, downloaded a next-stage payload that was disguised as a PNG image.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
• At the end of the day, the best slingshots are ones that will deliver the payload with authority while being easy to handle.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• The launch was far from simply a test flight, as the vehicle carried 12 payloads, mostly for research purposes.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• This compact yet capable machine boasts a payload capacity of around 4.4 pounds.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024