Vanload

Mohamud is accused of plotting to ignite what he thought was a vanload of explosives at a crowded downtown square. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

It pained him to no end to listen to these people yammer on about obtaining search warrants and running down leads, when they should be kicking in doors and rounding up suspects by the vanload. ❋ Vince Flynn (2010)

A helicopter hovered high above a vanload of Mexicans who were pouring out the back doors and scurrying for the hills. ❋ Kathy Charles (2010)

So, I thought, as the vanload of elderly Arapahos pulled out and Quame wound another length of webbing around my arm, when exactly did my own people decide not to accept things, but to change them? ❋ Lisa Jones (2010)

You drive in with your vanload of monitors, super8 tape decks, and so on, and they sling them into large shipping containers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally, the day came when the doors slammed on the last vanload of Eric, Annie, and Susans belongings, and they were standing in the street, saying goodbye to George and his parents. ❋ Lucy (2009)

At that time, participants in our syringe exchange program ran the exchange component, so a vanload of Lower East Side drug users and I drove up to Boston. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His early works are reminiscent of his transatlantic counterpart, the former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins — particularly James's oft-quoted "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered" ( "The book of my enemy has been remaindered/And I am pleased/In vast quantities it has been remaindered/Like a vanload of counterfeit that has been seized") and the Wimbledon-inspired "Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I went out when a vanload of ballots arrived, and saw that they were slit at the time they arrived by van. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When a Catholic nun was sentenced to six months in prison for civil disobedience while peacefully protesting, I was there to see her off, exchanged letters with her from jail, and went with a vanload of sisters to spring her from the clink at the end of her stint. ❋ Unknown (2008)