Here he lost two boatloads of seamen whom he sent ashore for investigation, and whose tragic fate may only be guessed from the appearance of savages later, upon the shore.
La Perouse lost two boatloads of men in this bore, on the eve of his departure,--a loss which he describes at length and with much feeling.
His son stole two boatloads of vegetables intended for the king’s own table.
By successive boatloads the survivors were all landed; the launch being brought up under the bill port, and the wounded, in cots, lowered into her by a whip from the fore yard, which was braced up for the purpose.
She was attacked in the harbor of Boca Teacapan by six boatloads of sailors and marines from the "Mohican," and was captured and burned.
There was one face which I missed out of those boatloads of blackguards, a face which I had very confidently expected to find most prominent amongst them.
There were now three boatloadsof them, and the boats were more fully manned than before.
So down upon Hispaniola they came by boatloads and shiploads, gathering like a swarm of mosquitoes, and overrunning the whole western end of the island.
Accordingly, one fine day there came half a dozen great boatloads of armed Spaniards, who landed upon the Turtle's Back and sent the Frenchmen flying to the woods and fastnesses of rocks as the chaff flies before the thunder gust.
Arming four boatloads of men, with muffled oars he rowed down the Delaware at night.
Five boatloads of people went to see the pirate captured.
Three boatloads of supplies, as well as a cargo of gunpowder, were simply annihilated, or nearly so.
Three boatloads of supplies, as well as the cargo of gunpowder, had been taken across and piled up ready for reshipment.
I heard there that some boatloads of provisions were to be sent down tonight upon the ebb to Montcalm's camp.
With those good words [641] and with our merchandise, we got two boatloads of rice.
Sending a boat ashore, with a story invented to throw the Portuguese off the scent, they are given twoboatloads of rice for their merchandise.
Meanwhile, the Ternatans bring daily boatloads of cloves and other things to the boat, but only food is bought from them, as the clove trade is kept for the king of Tidore.
At last, on February 13th, Dan River was reached; and Lord Cornwallis came up only in time to see the last boatloadsof the Americans safely landing on the other side of the wide stream which was too deep for the British to ford.
After a week of delay, Cornwallis was permitted to advance, and even then came up in time to see the last boatloads of the American troops crossing the great river which so effectually stopped all further pursuit.
Just as we got here, two boatloads of Starpha dependents arrived; they tried to give us an argument, and we discarnated the lot of them.
We brought three boatloadsof men, and came here at once.
Thence, too, the Romans would float their boatloads of iron down to the port of Anderida, as they called Pevensea; and there were yet old stone buildings that had been raised by them.
From the water front, where the boatloads of provisions docked, there was an endless procession of carts and drays carrying food to the scores of substations established throughout the city and the parks.
By the next morning several more boatloads made it through the surf, including one with Major Roosevelt.
After repeated attempts several boatloads made it to the rendezvous with the submarines, but Carlson and 120 men ended up stranded on the shore.
All night long his boatloads of men rowed up and down and kept the French on the alert.
The French sent out half the garrison to shoot down the first boatloads that came in on the rollers.
Leaving a garrison in the fort, in answer to imperative call, Clark set out with six boatloads of troops and prisoners for a flying trip to Kaskaskia.
We pushed off, three boatloads of tired but happy voyagers, leaving the fire leaping and crackling on the shore, illuminating with a red glare the rugged rocks, and casting gigantic and awful shadows on the sea.
Our three boatloads landed with no little difficulty on the abrupt rocks of the shore, being somewhat put to it to avoid sundry submerged boulders lying just off the land.
He consented, however, to take four boatloads of the Picard coal and use it in the forges connected with the works.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatloads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
