How to Use loading in a Sentence

loading

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  • The store’s on-street loading zone and all the parking spaces on that block were gone overnight.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • The output is good, and the front loading door made refills easy.
    — Sarah Wharton, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
  • The suspect entered the Union The suspect entered through a loading dock at the Union, said Whyte.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The aim is to prevent the fuel leaks that plagued past loading attempts.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The cylinder on the R8 is cut for moon clips to aid with fast loading and unloading.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a bottleneck at the bottom of the stairs at the loading platform.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
  • On the other side, in murky light, stood an empty loading dock.
    — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Be sure to bring your own loading help, too, and make sure that the TV can fit in your vehicle.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 27 May 2024
  • He was clothed when found in the top-loading washing machine.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • Some have to have their rotor blades removed to fit through the loading door to the convention floor.
    — Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The first disguised loading screen happens less than half an hour in.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • One space serves as the hotel's loading dock and basement, and the other is the ballroom that sits on top of the Saks building.
    — The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The top loading tray holds up to 60-sheets of paper and 3 months of ink are included with your purchase.
    — Karl Klockars, PCMAG, 1 Apr. 2024
  • And $25 million for the Port of Alabama to buy coal loading equipment.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In tight corners, the B5's front end tended to edge wide under big loadings.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 July 2023
  • Looking for a great stackable front-loading washer that won't break the bank?
    — Sarah Crow, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The 208 men who continued loading lost three months’ pay.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The city closed the block to car traffic, meaning tents lie just a few feet from warehouse loading bays of some businesses.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
  • In 2016, the Dali struck a loading pier made of stone while leaving port in Antwerp, causing damage to the ship’s stern, according to VesselFinder.com, a site that tracks ships across the world.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The string didn’t generate any errors or prevent the page from loading.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024
  • While two of the schools passed, an inspector was able to enter the third through a door in the school's loading dock that was left ajar while a delivery was in progress.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Outside on the loading dock of the convention center, DiFranco, whose hair is now bleached blond, pulls me aside.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The plans also call for three loading stations, one at the mouth of the 8-mile long canyon, and stations at Snowbird and Alta ski resorts.
    — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, the floor that feels least like a basement might be the actual basement, where lawmakers sneak off to smoke on the loading dock.
    — al, 1 Feb. 2023
  • If Gatsby’s set looks like a simulator, The Wiz’s looks like a video-game loading screen.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 4 May 2024
  • Firefighters found heavy fire at the loading dock and east end of the building, along with smoke coming from multiple parts of the roof.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2024
  • These days, the lines are mostly gone, and loading and unloading goes smoothly.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Front-loading was a good thing, given how far below neutral rates were.
    — Stephen Grocer, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The same goes for large warehouses with loading-dock doors that are usually left open.
    — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 31 July 2022
  • This line cracked due to fatigue caused by high loading from engine vibration and looseness in the clamp that normally constrains the line.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024

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