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How to use payload in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Payload means that part of a cargo that produces revenue. Example: “Payload princess is an unappreciated position to find oneself in. Rarely does anyone congratulate you for actually sitting on the objective whilst everyone else frolics on ahead.”

More sentences with payload

  • Payload princess is an unappreciated position to find oneself in. Rarely does anyone congratulate you for actually sitting on the objective whilst everyone else frolics on ahead.From the entry payload princess
  • The researchers found that "instead of exiftool detecting the metadata of the file it executes our payload."2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews. From the entry djvu
  • In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash.2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry dos
  • Sounding balloons carry a payload, usually a radiosonde, to heights of 30 km or more.2001, Fred V. Brock, Scott J. Richardson, Meteorological Measurement Systems, page 225. From the entry radiosonde
  • It is these small payload experiments that could potentially benefit from low cost ridealong opportunities.1996, Mohamed S. El-Genk (University of New Mexico, Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, United States Defense Nuclear Agency)…. From the entry ridealong
  • The satellite, which is the payload, is fastened to the nosepin of the third-stage rocket motor.1959, Welding Journal - Volume 38, Part 2, page 1094. From the entry nosepin
  • A packet's payload is taken as input into a service.2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry dos
  • There are perpetual requests for changes as new payloads and new demands and modifications are suggested by the users.1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle…. From the entry perpetual
  • He was responsible for the proposal and all the technical concepts for the communications payload of the Skynet II satellite.1984, W. P. Robins, Phase Noise in Signal Sources: Theory and Applications (IEE Telecommunications Series; 9), London: Peter Peregrinus…. From the entry Skynet
  • None of the VirusTotal anti-virus scanners detected the CySource researchers' Base64 encoded payload added to the metadata of the malicious DjVu file.2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews. From the entry djvu
  • Here, we examine the stability of a non-cleavable Amino-PEG6-based linker bearing the monomethyl auristatin D (MMAD) payload site-specifically conjugated at multiple positions on an antibody.2015 July 11, “Site-Dependent Degradation of a Non-Cleavable Auristatin-Based Linker-Payload in Rodent Plasma and Its Effect on ADC…. From the entry auristatin
  • One week later, the new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) was loaded on Discovery and the payload bay doors were cleared and closed out.2008, R. Michael Gordon, The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way, page 192. From the entry close out
  • The primary purpose of having such high power available is enabling the single-heading of heavy trains, which results "in higher payload and lower traction costs", says Stadler.2022 October 19, Tony Streeter, “A glimpse into UK rail's future: Europe's most powerful”, in RAIL, number 968, page 35. From the entry single-heading
  • Recent studies have concluded that Viking-era entry system deceleration technologies are extremely difficult to scale for progressively larger payloads (tens of metric tons) required for human Mars exploration.2014, Karl T. Edquist et al., “Development of Supersonic Retropropulsion for Future Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems”, in Journal…. From the entry retropropulsion
  • Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information.2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48. From the entry cyberunit
  • The prototype body, which can take an 11-ton payload, is of aluminium and designed for end loading; it is of semi-integral construction, with sides acting as deep girders.1960 November, “High Hopes for the B.R. Roadrailer”, in Trains Illustrated, page 686. From the entry semi-integral
  • The structure of a rooter is a fixed package: a program that generates fixed shell code with a fixed payload, launching it at a single target chosen by the attacker.2006, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook, page 542. From the entry rooter

Meaning of payload

  1. noun That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
  2. noun The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment, and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft.
  3. noun That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.

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Questions about payload in a sentence

How do you use payload in a sentence?
Payload is used as a noun. For example: “Payload princess is an unappreciated position to find oneself in. Rarely does anyone congratulate you for actually sitting on the objective whilst everyone else frolics on ahead.”
What is a short sentence with payload?
“A packet's payload is taken as input into a service.”
What does payload mean?
Payload means that part of a cargo that produces revenue.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: payload (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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