wagonload
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wagonload
Example Sentences
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The factory produced just one wagonload of ammunition before the war ended in May 1945 and the camp was liberated.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022
In my short story “The Art of Loading Brush,” when Andy Catlett and his brother go to a neighbor’s farm, there’s a wagonload of junk, and it’s beautifully loaded.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019
So I get up and draw a roadway, and a mirror in that roadway, and moving toward that mirror, a wagonload of characters.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014
The rest of us—two fighters, a cleric, a magic user, and a rogue—were told that we had been hired to deliver a wagonload of supplies to the town of Phandalin.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2014
Late in the summer of 1855, John Brown arrived in Kansas with a wagonload of arms and ammunition.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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