Sentence examples for stopped to load from inspiring English sources

The boats stopped to load and unload here.

The town had a landing on the Sepulga River, where keelboats in the 1800's stopped to load cotton, then headed south to the port of Pensacola, Fla.

Rumours of plots against him are common, but this one was unusually dramatic.On March 7th, some 70 men were nabbed in Zimbabwe, where their plane, which took off from South Africa, had allegedly stopped to load weapons en route for Equatorial Guinea.

"Taxis and private vehicles can stop to expeditiously pick up or discharge passengers at the curb, but they cannot stop to load or unload packages," Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, said in an e-mail.

"You know, it's a promise I made to myself when I went into movies, and I think I drove Brian De Palma crazy on 'The Untouchables.' Because I was always stopping to load my gun or checking to see how many bullets I had left.

Yes, my glorious ride does not stop to load or unload until it reaches its destination, which means, at no point, can any scumbag try to make off with either my macbook, or the new worst-seller that I'm typing onto it.

The locomotive-hauled mixed trains, with frequent stops to load and unload, were timetabled at 1 to 2 hours to make the same journey, slower than walking.

5. Los Coyotes Stop here to load up on snake, lizard, wild boar, pejelagarto fish, deer, escamoles (ant eggs), crocodile and iguana.

They also stop to unload and load.

He stops painting, goes to load up the stove.

On the return voyage the boats would stop in Virginia to load tobacco, which they carried north.