How to Use armload in a Sentence

armload

noun
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  • And users have responded in kind, eating up iOS apps by the armload.
    — Mike Isaac, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2012
  • An aide trailed him, holding an armload of books for signing.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The couple in line ahead of us brought along a group of relatives, all dressed up and holding armloads of flowers.
    — Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019
  • O’Neill starts many days on the road at Trader Joe’s, buying armloads of fresh flowers and bags of grapes, artichokes, limes and baked goods.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 10 June 2017
  • With a few powerful machete whacks, Inuma felled the tree and carried off an armload of prizes.
    — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • People rushed into a Nike store and carried out armloads of clothing.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2020
  • Looters were running out of stores in the northeastern section of the city with armloads of merchandise.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
  • So many people charge into a new year with an armload of resolutions.
    — Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Then their oldest son, Tilden (Paul Sparks), enters bearing an armload of corn, fresh picked from a backyard that his parents know full well has been barren for years.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2016
  • People rushed into a Nike store in Manhattan and carried out armloads of clothing.
    — Author: Jennifer Peltz and Karen Matthews, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020
  • An armload of green branches for decorations may be taken as part of this permit.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Those were chaotic events, with shoppers grabbing merchandise by the armload.
    — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Keep adding armloads of boughs or other vegetation if the mattress compresses too much or isn’t warm enough.
    — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
  • Thieves also stocked up on free groceries at an Aldi, ransacking the discount grocer and leaving with armloads of produce and meat.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • There are perfectly serious record collectors who might lug an armload of vinyl home from a flea market.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Like any good business school professor, Eisenmann comes prepared with an armload of case studies.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Someone had entered the apartment next door, taken a random armload of the tenant’s belongings — photo albums, a doormat, a shoe holder — and dumped it all with the garbage in the basement.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • As the drone of a riding lawnmower and the whine of a weed-whacker cut the morning stillness, youngsters in combat fatigues strode into Jewett City Cemetery, armloads of American flags in tow.
    — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 9 June 2017
  • Sydney Torres, 22, who works at the nearby Mirage, seemed lost carrying an armload of sunflowers.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Once upon a time, style savvy New Yorkers could venture out and arrive back to their apartments toting an armload of shopping bags, each stuffed with its own sartorial treasures.
    — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Chivalry will transfer itself to those who need it, or deserve respect: old people, admired people, anyone with an armload of packages.
    — Gloria Steinem, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • GoPro is the solution for anyone who wants to capture their outdoor experience without having to carry armloads of gear into the field or on the water.
    — Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Downtown Chicago had been overrun by looters in the early morning of Aug. 10 when police allegedly spotted a man coming out of a Loop retail store with an armload of merchandise.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Among the most memorable: In 2006, a container filled with thousands of bags of Doritos washed up off Frisco, creating a frenzy as people snatched armloads of nacho cheese, cool ranch and spicy nacho varieties.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Nothing sucks the fun out of a Saturday afternoon like fighting through hordes of tourists pointing cameras at enormous, barking marine mammals, lugging armloads of shopping bags, and chowing down on clam chowder.
    — Marisa Kendall, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Groups of people were seen carrying armloads of merchandise from businesses in Port Richmond on Sunday afternoon.
    — NBC News, 1 June 2020
  • That same year, the King of Rock 'n' Roll skyrocketed to super-stardom making historic network television appearances, giving record-breaking live performances, and receiving armloads of gold record awards.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Taken in full, the book allows readers to consider an alternative to popular accommodations that entail pushing door-code buttons before entering a solo space with an armload of groceries.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Cumulatively, Weiss’s approach to pre-matrimony body management resembles one of those old TV competitions where contestants tore around a grocery store sweeping indiscriminate armloads of products into their cart.
    — Charlotte Shane, The Cut, 3 Apr. 2018

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