Examples of boatload

• One day, he saves a boatload of gunpowder from sabotage.

• According to this legend a boatload of women and children was wrecked on the reef and their cries can still be heard from time to time in the wind.

• We receive regular reports of the interception of boatloads of migrants; as a rule, these people are first brought to shore and taken care of.

• I was in a fishing port not long ago and saw a couple of boatloads of fish come in.

• Boatloads of directors arrive for meetings to satisfy the requirement that a company is deemed to be managed and controlled where the directors meet.

• Before that boatloads of young foals were shipped abroad, ostensibly for riding, but most of them were for meat, and that trade was stopped.

• They were sent down by boatloads without the slightest attempt at proper care, and no one, or next to it, to attend them in the boat.

• Four boatloads of soldiers were despatched at night, though the sailors who rowed there were extremely pessimistic as to their chances.

• Boatloads of goods travel from one marketplace to another, but the cargoes must be sold at a loss.

• They were later followed by boatloads of high-priority cargo: ammunition and medical supplies.

• Immigration has become a prominent political issue, as reports of boatloads of illegal immigrants or "clandestini" dominate news programmes, especially in the summertime.

• They removed several boatloads of cargo before setting her afire.

• How would a boatload of panic-stricken, frail humanity cope?

• Flour supplies had run out again and there was no likelihood of more until the next boatload of settlers arrived.

• A boatload of coal was taken up the river in 1764 as a test.