Sentence examples for boatload from inspiring English sources
The word "boatload" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a very large quantity of something, typically too much to measure. For example, "She received a boatload of birthday gifts this year."
noun
A large quantity.
- He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
The offending article showed Hanson-Young's face Photoshopped on to a woman in a bikini, claiming with an arched brow it would "house the next boatload of asylum seekers in the Zoo office" if the Greens' immigration spokeswoman would agree to a "tasteful" swimsuit or lingerie shoot.
Every night, they find at least one boatload, sometimes up to 20 of them, each with a cargo of 30-odd smuggled people; sometimes, there are also drugs or automatic weapons stashed inside.
Anarchy in Albania which God placed a mere 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the heel of Italy—has sent refugees by the boatload across the Strait of Otranto and obliged the Italians to respond.
A boatload of Burundian rebels was ambushed on June 13th on Lake Tanganyika as they tried to make their way home from Congo.
The wranglings of the International Whaling Commission rapidly become as riveting as a courtroom thriller.The birth of the anti-whaling movement from the depths of the 1970s American counterculture is traced to a boatload of anti-nuclear protesters listening to whale-song recordings while on LSD.
WHAT a boatload of frustration Jean-Claude Juncker must have felt on June 9th.
In response, Vietnam dispatched a boatload of tourists on a cruise through the archipelago the following month.
When a boatload of defeated Senegalese troops returned from Bissau in March, they angrily waved CFA500 notes their meagre daily allowance, worth less than $1 at the officials who had come to meet them.
Mr Rajapaksa himself went off to his southern hometown of Hambantota, visiting a big, Chinese-built port about to receive its first ship, to be blessed by a boatload of monks.Mr Rajapaksa has a surfeit of recent gifts.
(FT Alphaville) Will the Fed end up losing a boatload of taxpayer money on its QE programs?
Apple was selling iPods by the boatload, and the iTunes store was doing brisk business.
