How to Use truckload in a Sentence

truckload

noun
  • 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
  • Okay, one pilates habit and a truckload of talent, but still.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Mar. 2017
  • That includes eight truckloads a week earmarked for a cruise line that has gone dark.
    — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Truckload by truckload, it was scaled down to a small pile of nice things to donate.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Lee had arrived with a truckload of cotton.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The racists and the we-hate-PC crowd would buy that gear by the truckload.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • To save money, offer to go in with neighbors or friends on a truckload.
    — oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
  • One way to score the freshest citrus fruits is to find a direct truckload sale.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • And players might be smart to dream of an annuity, rather than a truckload of cash.
    — Scott McFetridge, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This is ‘there’s a truckload of stuff that cannot be taken to people’ story.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Bringing your whole selves to work means bringing a truckload of emotions.
    — Catherine Mevs, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Every road needed to be dirt instead of paved, so the dirt was brought in by the truckload.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This is, 'there's a truckload of stuff that cannot be taken to people' story.
    — Juana Summers, CNN, 30 Sep. 2017
  • In response, the workers dumped truckloads of dirt into the hole.
    — Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The firm has pared back its truckload fleet, which serves shippers who fill entire trailers with freight.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The hole left by the partial collapse was filled with more than 50 truckloads of soil the next day.
    — Nicholas K. Geranios, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2017
  • The zoo received two truckloads of leftover trees this year, said Eisenbarth.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Because his guys have swallowed a truckload of Lindsay olives.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Every single second, a garbage truckload of clothes gets dumped, so that just goes to show you how many clothes exist.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This is a there’s-a truckload-of-stuff-that-cannot-be-taken-to-people story.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2017
  • In recent weeks, the agency has had to compete in the market, paying for truckloads of food.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2020
  • The Suns have helped us tremendously by purchasing a full truckload of bread for us.
    — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The first monthly report on homelessness in San Diego was a truckload of grim news.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Then last week, pantry director Jesse Sharrard got a call from the food bank that a truckload was on the way.
    — Lauren Linder, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The city now sends out three 20-ton truckloads of cake a day to be loaded onto trains destined for Ohio.
    — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 3 Mar. 2026
  • If somebody offers you a truckload of free mulch and a bridge in Brooklyn, probably best to pass on it.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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