- present participle of unload.
unloading
Example Sentences
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Desperate for cash to meet margin calls from lenders, he considered unloading a $3.5 billion stake in Anthropic before deciding to dump most of his public portfolio instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Some of the most popular new technologies were designed to take over the least desirable jobs in warehouses, tasks that require physical labor like loading and unloading trucks or picking merchandise for online orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A US energy exploration company has sparked an outcry by unloading drilling equipment without authorisation on the east coast of Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street in Reseda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
I can see men pulling handcarts up to the main door and another man unloading the baskets of orchard fruit.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
