shipment
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
After intercepting an illegal shipment of pink-breasted cockatoos from Australia, they needed to find the birds a new home.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Each new shipment of sod that arrived in refrigerated trucks costs about $250,000 — and teams likely would have to replace that sod at least once during an NFL season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Prosecutors said in May they were investigating the shipment of "high-end" AI servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China, Macau and Hong Kong, in violation of US export controls.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The service includes real-time shipment monitoring, as well as services to help recover freight if issues arise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Late in the afternoon we were allowed aboard a mail train, only to be put off two stops farther on to make room for a food shipment.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
After the war began it stepped up shipments via pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, which has allowed it export some three quarters of its pre-war level.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The intense demand for server CPUs and rising memory-chip prices have cut into both PC production and shipments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
SSAB’s production and shipments were somewhat higher on year, but it expects to see a seasonal slowdown in demand during the third quarter, and it will carry out planned maintenance across all steel divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Roughly 25% of all air cargo in the U.S. travels in the belly of commercial passenger jets, routinely exposing passengers to fire-prone shipments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
