carload
the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
the legal minimum weight entitling a railroad shipper to a rate (carload rate ) lower than that charged for less than this weight.
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How to use carload in a sentence
Yet shortly after getting my license, I still found myself driving around drunk late one night with a carload of friends—just one of many bad driving choices I made that could have ruined my life or somebody else’s.
Rather than delivering grain to the starving cities, or necessary war materiel to the front, Russia’s anemic railroad system was clogged by carloads of vodka.
Tsar Nicolas II Thought Vodka Was Hurting Russians—But Banning It Helped Destroy His Empire | Mark Lawrence Schrad | July 20, 2021 | TimeFor the most part, a carload of randy frat boys causes Metro Vice more headaches than the CES crowd.
Temptations of the Flesh in Sin City Are Nothing for 150,000 Nerds | John L. Smith | January 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe recalls calling a meeting when “American Gypsies were flooding in by the carload” to Milwaukee.
American Gypsies Are a Persecuted Minority That Is Starting to Fight Back | Nina Strochlic | December 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA carload of German tourists had been killed the week before; there was nothing to stop them.
I believe they are going to get hauled by the carload in November.
Then they dumped in carload after carload of rock and gravel; but the muskeg absorbed it and waited for more.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossShe had a carload of groceries, and I helped her put them in the house.
Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyPaper could not be obtained for printing, and a carload of brown wrapping paper was used.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairOnly low-grade and long haul carload traffic can profitably be concentrated.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyNor can local business in less than carload lots profitably be concentrated beyond a certain point.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. Ripley
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