courier

Example Sentences

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They hold moisture, yes — but they also carry spice into the interior like a well-trained courier.

From Salon

His instructions, many of which I have seen, were to collect the boxes and send them on to addresses in London, Birmingham and Warsaw using the DHL and DPD courier companies.

From BBC

In October Polish and Romanian authorities said they thwarted a Russian plot to send incendiary packages through a Ukrainian courier service, including devices intended to ignite in Bucharest.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her Alawi identity rendered her especially useful as a revolutionary courier; police never imagined her capable of betraying the regime.

From Los Angeles Times

And Olka had managed to get herself a job as a courier at the Eagle Pharmacy, the sole Polish-owned business that was permitted to stay open within the ghetto walls.

From Literature