trainload
IPA: trˈeɪnɫoʊd
noun
- (rail transport) The amount that can be transported by a train.
- (by extension) A large amount.
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Examples of "trainload" in Sentences
- Gas a trainload of harmless and defenceless people?
- And that has been more than enough words spent writing about this doomed trainload.
- He had shipped a trainload down and ranged them in his wilder mountain pastures to the west.
- Issa has not discouraged articles suggesting he will send the administration subpoenas by the trainload.
- (Don Harpst of McCook, remembers a "trainload" of POWs who debarked from the train at Indianola late one wintry night in 1944.
- In July, a trainload of Metro-North passengers was stranded for about an hour without water or air conditioning near Westport, Conn., after overhead wires fell.
- In Annecy, the French police, who had rounded up a trainload of Jews for deportation, found them Selves looking at the barrels of guns trained on them by soldiers of the Italian Fourth Army.
- Terence Hollingworth, Blagnac, FranceHere in Germany, I remember reading about a full trainload of radioactive Turkish hazelnuts, found several years after Chernobyl on some far track of a Bundeswehr depot.
- Taking the witness stand last week, the reticent Mr. Abramovich was immediately grilled by Mr. Berezovsky's attorney about whether he had stolen a trainload of diesel fuel in 1992, had forged documents and had traded in weapons—all of which he denied.
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