Example Sentences

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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

From The Verge • Sep. 24, 2020

“What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 12, 2017

That's unladen, pulling nothing but its own weight, and it may be ambitious.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2015

The K-MAX was selected because it can carry over 2,700kg, which is more than its unladen weight.

From Economist • Sep. 13, 2012

And now the ships had unladen the planter’s stores, and were preparing for departure.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick