How to Use carrying capacity in a Sentence

carrying capacity

noun
  • These shipowners and ocean carriers have to pay $50 per net ton of the cargo-carrying capacity of a vessel calling the port.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The density of nanotubes can also vary from spot to spot, which will result in transistors with a wide variety of current-carrying capacities.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • Nelson worries about carrying capacity — a term ecologists use to estimate what an area can sustainably handle long term.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The backpack from Bseash is about 21 inches tall, 13 inches wide, and 8 inches deep, with a carrying capacity of 40 liters.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2026
  • County officials have long used the chemicals in waterways to clear out vegetation and maintain the water-carrying capacity of flood control channels.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The interesting results come when the researchers start looking into the material’s current-carrying capacity.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Exceptions will be made for voyages shorter than 2,000 nautical miles and vessels with a smaller than 4,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) carrying capacity.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This mission debuted larger strap-on solid rocket boosters, increasing the Ariane 64’s carrying capacity from 32 to 36 Amazon Leo satellites.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 June 2026
  • Gonex Waterproof Underseat Carry-on Made with waterproof and lightweight PVC fabric, this underseat bag offers 30 liters of carrying capacity.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Away The Bigger Carry-on Flex Made with eight more liters of carrying capacity than the standard carry-on, The Bigger Carry-on Flex can hold up to 10 days of outfits, according to shoppers.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The additional $235 million will help address land subsidence along the Delta-Mendota Canal and restore its water-carrying capacity for farms and communities, said Federico Barajas, executive director of the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026

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