Sentence examples for unloading supplies from inspiring English sources

The crew spent the next several hours unloading supplies, setting up the kitchen tent, and getting the cabin ready.

A large truck blocked the road; people were unloading supplies into a makeshift emergency-relief station inside.

So the paratroopers are spending their days fortifying positions, unloading supplies and adjusting to a climate and terrain that are far different from what they expected.

"The World War II airstrip was so busy with planes loading and unloading supplies and people coming in or trying to flee.

Two American soldiers were killed in a mortar attack as they were unloading supplies from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at a base in Shkin, in Paktika Province, near Pakistan, the military said.

Indonesian soldiers spent the first days after the disaster acting as labourers, unloading supplies off American navy helicopters and delivering them to survivors of the earthquake-triggered tsunami, which killed more than 177,000 people in Aceh alone.Indonesia's then-new president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, took this humiliation personally.

The ship that malfunctioned had already docked with the station to unload supplies.

He later travelled to France with the invasion forces to unload supplies in makeshift harbours up the coast to Boulogne.

Meanwhile, the Karluk drifted in the pack, and the men unloaded supplies onto the ice in anticipation of the big freeze.

The Marines are modifying their cargo-handling procedures in order to allow them to unload supplies on an "as-needed" basis, rather than all at once.

Ships had to wait as long as a month to unload supplies of critical industrial commodities like iron ore for steel production, driving up costs that producers passed on to consumers.