How to Use payload in a Sentence

payload

noun

• The truck is carrying a payload of 2,580 pounds.
• The worst thing is that these payloads of bad stuff leave no trace behind.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The drones have a roughly nine-mile range, depending on payload size.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This will be the 24th launch of the reusable New Shepard rocket, and will carry 33 science payloads.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2023
• The rover is by far the most complex and expensive payload NASA has planned for the commercial lunar missions.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• Among the 28 payloads scheduled for the launch, there was an inclusion from Celestis and Elysium Space.
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Enlarge / Vast's space station as seen inside the payload fairing of a Falcon 9.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• The LauncherOne rocket was carrying a payload of nine satellites, the first to be manufactured in Wales.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
• The maximum payload for Prime Air is 5 lb, and Amazon says that 85 percent of its shipments fall under that weight.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2022
• Drones fly slower than an F-35, carry a smaller payload, beckon ground fire, and last mere days before being shot out of the skies.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2023
• It was cut from the Viking payload in 1971, deemed too heavy and unlikely to offer conclusive results.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• The payload: nine different satellites from both the military and the private sector.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• These missions save costs by tagging along on other launches as what is called a rideshare, or secondary payload.
  — Ali M. Bramson, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• But information like range, payload, and towing has yet to be disclosed.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
• The craft also has low running and maintenance costs, plus 13 tons of payload, according to Griffon.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
• Size and engine power enabled the Phantom to carry a remarkable payload for its time.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• Both are privately organized, though NASA is backing them and paying to fly small payloads on each.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• The official on Tuesday noted that this description of the payload does not include the solar panels.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2023
• During the Starship's coast toward entry, flight controllers planned to test of payload door that will be used on future flights to launch Starlink satellites.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Adcock says the robot’s speed at tasks and ability to handle larger and more diverse types of payloads will also need to increase.
  — Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024