How to Use truckload in a Sentence

truckload

noun
  • The racists and the we-hate-PC crowd would buy that gear by the truckload.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Naples used sand by the truckloads to improve the beach.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2018
  • In the last 2½ weeks, Feeding San Diego has bought 36 truckloads of food.
    NBC News, 7 Apr. 2020
  • For each venue, the dirt crew hauls in as much as six hundred truckloads in about two days.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Truckload by truckload, it was scaled down to a small pile of nice things to donate.
    Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Well, the three planeloads that the U.S. dropped last week are equivalent to ballpark four to six truckloads.
    Elena Burnett, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That extra truckload of weight does not hold back the M50 when the road turns from straight to sinuous.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2022
  • After all, even roses by the truckload still weigh a ton.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The Lift SuperStore buys lifts by the truckload to help lower freight costs.
    Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • One way to score the freshest citrus fruits is to find a direct truckload sale.
    Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That includes eight truckloads a week earmarked for a cruise line that has gone dark.
    Jesse Newman, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020
  • And players might be smart to dream of an annuity, rather than a truckload of cash.
    Scott McFetridge, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web is headlined by a truckload of discounts on good PC games.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 21 May 2022
  • To save money, offer to go in with neighbors or friends on a truckload.
    oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In recent weeks, the agency has had to compete in the market, paying for truckloads of food.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2020
  • This isn't the first time thieves have tried to take off with pistachios or other nuts in this region by the truckload.
    Rachel Trent and Brisa Colón, CNN, 22 June 2021
  • The fee is $2 per carload or $5 per SUV or pickup truckload, and is cash only.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The company goes through two semitrailer loads of dried corn and one truckload of flour a week.
    John Sowell, idahostatesman, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Trump unloaded a truckload of lies that left plenty of room for Biden to debunk them, but Biden did not seem up to the task.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2024
  • The National Guard had to be called in to deliver water by the truckload.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The zoo received two truckloads of leftover trees this year, said Eisenbarth.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • About 45 truckloads of concrete were to be delivered for the project on Friday.
    James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The first monthly report on homelessness in San Diego was a truckload of grim news.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The amount of aid delivered by a French plane in an airdrop last week was much less than a single truckload.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The video went viral and Apodaca was gifted a truckload of Ocean Spray.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The Suns have helped us tremendously by purchasing a full truckload of bread for us.
    Duane Rankin, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Thieves have been stealing truckloads of nuts, police say.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But first, there’s a truckload of exposition to get through.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The machines roared for more than 12 hours a day as truckloads of tomatoes rolled in to be washed, inspected and packaged.
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Redirecting gutter downspouts can help, as can building up the area with a truckload or two of good topsoil.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2024

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