Sentence examples for human freight from inspiring English sources

We've become human freight.

Tenement housewives were "human freight elevators, hauling groceries, coal, firewood and children up and down endless flights of stairs," Ms. Ziegelman writes.

Increasingly well-organized criminal groups trading in human freight -- a less risky but scarcely less lucrative commodity than drugs -- have emerged to coordinate smuggled passages into a Europe largely closed to legal immigration.

Spain's foreign minister, Josep Pique, had hinted that Morocco was lax in its policing of the rubber dinghies that pour their human freight across and quite often into the narrow waters between the two countries.In this section Guess who wasn't coming to dinner?

Without human freight it weighs 1,213lbs – or more than 200lbs less than an F1 car.

But then you soon realize you aren't 6'6" and built like a human freight train with jarring muscles popping out of your skull.

Groening, the so-called "bookkeeper" of Auschwitz, counted the money of dead Jewish people and stood guard as incoming freight trains unloaded their human cargo.

Management of human and freight traffic requires cooperation from both sides — a partnership that seems to be working.

She explained US Geological Survey scientists had been able to cultivate viable fungal spores from tiny samples of soil, raising fears of a nightmare scenario of WNS being transported by humans or freight to western US states.

"This operation involved effectively smuggling human beings as freight," he said.

An international smuggling syndicate that treated human beings like "freight" masterminded the illegal transportation of 35 Afghan Sikhs into UK that led to one of them dying in a shipping container, a court has heard.