Example sentences for: freight

How can you use “freight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The British call station wagons estate cars , but they refer to freight cars on a train as goods wagons (borrowed into French as plain wagon , also used in wagons-lits , the sleeping cars on old trains like the Orient Express).

  • With horses, wagons carry freight and have four wheels; carts may carry anything but have two wheels.

  • "The only freight train that counts these days," says former Reaganaut and current cyberguru George Gilder, "is the Internet with Java."

  • In the version of that argument given in What It Means , he asserts that "most government interventions are ineffectual" because "modern society has the inertia of a ponderous freight train."

  • We have trivialized and routinized sex to the point where it just doesn't carry the emotional freight it carried in the schoolyards and bedrooms of the 1950s.


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