How to Use unload in a Sentence

unload

verb

• It took four hours to unload the truck.
• Could you help me unload the car?
• I have to unload the groceries.
• She unloaded a huge amount of stock when prices fell.
• After the ship docked, they unloaded its cargo.
• The train made several stops to unload passengers.
• Most ships unload at another dock now.
• Rumor has it that the manager wants to unload him. Maybe he'll be traded to another team.
• These are the workers who load and unload ships at the port.
  — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
• This is the signal that the bus is stopped to load or unload children.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• May walked out of the home as the truck was being unloaded.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Somebody has to clean the carcasses, drive the trucks and unload the haul.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• Hickey then unloaded them with a triple over the head of the right fielder to up the lead to 8-1.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
• The server then comes to the table to unload the food onto the table.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
• Stretch can reach up to 10 feet inside of a truck to pick up and unload boxes up to 50 pounds each.
  — Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• There are a lot of trailers out there that need to be unloaded.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
• But Philippe won’t have to make landfall in order to unload strong wind gusts and heavy rain.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Joel Farquhar is at the mill with his team unloading grain.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
• The design usually requires the weapon to be unloaded for the lock to be used.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 28 June 2024
• But James finds her there, at 1:30 in the morning, and decides this is the proper time to unload his secrets.
  — ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
• The Angels shortstop unloaded on the first pitch out of Black’s hand, placing it on the berm beyond the left-field wall.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The move to unload so many shows at Showtime comes as the premium cabler is set to move under the purview of Paramount+.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
• The employees are being asked to load and unload aircraft and to transport bags from the bag room to planes.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• Yet even as the number of ships waiting to unload at the port has dropped sharply, inflation has not.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 June 2022
• Crews worked through the afternoon to unload fuel from the overturned tank, Boyd said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Early in that summer of 1990, my mother came home and asked Lex and me to unload something from the back of her minivan.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• With time and a one-of-a-kind convertible on their hands, the drivers unloaded the car for a joyride on the then-new LA freeways.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024
• Trump unloaded a truckload of lies that left plenty of room for Biden to debunk them, but Biden did not seem up to the task.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2024
• West was armed and Young asked him to unload it before Elvis proceeded, which West did.
  — Pam Windsor, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• Berniece won’t consider selling it — there’s been too much family bloodshed spilled around it — namely that her and Boy Willie’s father was killed the morning after the heist — to just unload it.
  — Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024