UNLOAD in a Sentence

Learn UNLOAD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

22 example sentences for UNLOAD, such as:

1. Hi, it is the time to unload the truck.
2. A crane was already unloading crates and pallets.
3. The ship was allowed to unload cargo on the wharf.
4. But the work of unloading, once started, could not be arrested.
5. He followed into the market and watched the men unloading their waggons.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNLOAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unload
 v.  take something off a container
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Many of the wounded asked them not to unload the carts but only to let them sit on the top of the things.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
3  In four days I have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some wagons at Grasse.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  I went at once to the vessel and asked the captain to permit me to help unload the vessel in order to get money for food.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
5  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  He worked like ten at the unloading, and when it was over hastened on to Michael Eady's for the glue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  I went one day down on the wharf of Mr. Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a scow of stone, I went, unasked, and helped them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  There were no loud songs heard from those engaged in loading and unloading ships.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
10  He followed into the market and watched the men unloading their waggons.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
11  But the work of unloading, once started, could not be arrested.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
12  On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
13  As soon as it became light enough for me to see my surroundings I noticed that I was near a large ship, and that this ship seemed to be unloading a cargo of pig iron.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
14  A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  The experiment in some measure succeeded, though far too many suffered their unloaded muskets to be torn from their hands, in the vain hope of appeasing the savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
Example Sentence:
1  The ship was allowed to unload cargo on the wharf.
2  Hi, it is the time to unload the truck.
3  They overlook two gun mounts that resemble cannon barrels; the Zumwalt's powerful new gun system can unload 600 rocket-powered projectiles on targets more than 70 miles away.
4  A crane was already unloading crates and pallets.