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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
truckload
noun
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▪ As we discussed in the last chapter, businesses move truckloads of goods across borders every day.
▪ At the same time, the truckload of urinals began to climb the foothills.
▪ But scores of state policemen met two truckloads of the farmers at a spot where a small stream crosses the mountain road.
▪ Dale, his logger, had cut two truckloads of wood for me, and that was it for now.
▪ Each truckload of concrete arrived from the plant with a certificate listing its ingredients and proportions.
▪ So astonishing are the anecdotes, so bizarre the characters, that eventually the reader has to suspend a truckload of disbelief.
▪ The driver, who is stuck with a truckload of oranges, called his company to tell of his ordeal.
▪ They are given incentives to move to the hills and transported there in truckloads.
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truckload

n. 1 A full truck or lorry 2 A large number

Usage examples of "truckload".

Place des Heros, or a truckload being shipped out from the Casernes Dessalines.

Avram was arrested with a truckload of other Jews from Rostock and taken to a distant camp.

They had to haul away truckloads of old newspapers and miscelianeous junk before they could put it on the market, and when they auctioned off the rest of the things, it took two whole weekends.

A truckload of Boers behind every engine would have stopped the practice for ever.

In the van, Castelani had placed five truckloads of riflemen, and immediately behind them were the machinegun sections, which he knew he could bring into action within minutes.

Nothing short of a truckload of steroids could have delivered the professor from his computer-geek looks.

The motel cabins were dark because their occupants were the MPs who were on the highway monitoring traffic, chasing the losers back to Texas, ushering fresh truckloads of GIs towards Trinity.

In a random examination of three dozen repair jobs, this newspaper documented truckloads of missing materials, projects paid for but never done, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharges.

The residents of Hampshire Homes in Miramar already have watched as 260 truckloads of tires and trash were hauled out of the infamous sinkhole that opened up there.

So many buttons are lost in a war, and have to be replaced—whole boxfuls, whole truckloads of buttons at a time.

They flew west down the Interstate, back toward Utah and California, amid the truckloads of lettuce and hay bales and lumber that John thought seemed to never leave the roads, as if they existed in some sort of perpetual caffeinated loop.

Suddenly Craig was very anxious to get the truckload of his people safely back to King's Lynn.

They harvest the dagga in the secret places in the hills and send it by the truckload to Cape Town and Johannesburg and Durban.

The news i had to be told and Matthew was the only recipient handy, so she went on, “Agatha’s Joe is a policeman, you know, and he says a whole truckload of secret service men came into Bloomington last night.

The news i had to be told and Matthew was the only recipient handy, so she went on, "Agatha’s Joe is a policeman, you know, and he says a whole truckload of secret service men came into Bloomington last night.