How to Use unload in a Sentence

unload

verb
Definition of unloadnext
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  • It took four hours to unload the truck.
  • Could you help me unload the car?
  • I have to unload the groceries.
  • She unloaded a huge amount of stock when prices fell.
  • After the ship docked, they unloaded its cargo.
  • The train made several stops to unload passengers.
  • Most ships unload at another dock now.
  • Rumor has it that the manager wants to unload him. Maybe he'll be traded to another team.
  • These are the workers who load and unload ships at the port.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • This is the signal that the bus is stopped to load or unload children.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
  • May walked out of the home as the truck was being unloaded.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Somebody has to clean the carcasses, drive the trucks and unload the haul.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Hickey then unloaded them with a triple over the head of the right fielder to up the lead to 8-1.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
  • The server then comes to the table to unload the food onto the table.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Stretch can reach up to 10 feet inside of a truck to pick up and unload boxes up to 50 pounds each.
    — Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • There are a lot of trailers out there that need to be unloaded.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
  • With no space at the port, ships can’t unload, and the goods people are demanding cannot make it to the stores.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But Philippe won’t have to make landfall in order to unload strong wind gusts and heavy rain.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Joel Farquhar is at the mill with his team unloading grain.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
  • The design usually requires the weapon to be unloaded for the lock to be used.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 28 June 2024
  • But James finds her there, at 1:30 in the morning, and decides this is the proper time to unload his secrets.
    — ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The Angels shortstop unloaded on the first pitch out of Black’s hand, placing it on the berm beyond the left-field wall.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t unload the day’s junk onto the dining room table or kitchen counter.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The move to unload so many shows at Showtime comes as the premium cabler is set to move under the purview of Paramount+.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The employees are being asked to load and unload aircraft and to transport bags from the bag room to planes.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Yet even as the number of ships waiting to unload at the port has dropped sharply, inflation has not.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 June 2022
  • Crews worked through the afternoon to unload fuel from the overturned tank, Boyd said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Early in that summer of 1990, my mother came home and asked Lex and me to unload something from the back of her minivan.
    — WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • There were ships anchored offshore waiting to come into ports from Maine to Texas, in order to load and unload goods.
    — Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Dockworkers handle freight by loading and unloading cargo ships that come to port.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024

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