shipload
Example Sentences
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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
The price of a shipload of L.N.G., which might have sold for $20 million two years ago, soared to perhaps $200 million last summer, and is now about half that, with winter fast approaching.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson.
From Fox News ● Feb. 8, 2019
A shipload of gravel is causing controversy in French Polynesia amid campaigners' concerns that it could be contaminated with plutonium from nuclear tests.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2016
When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
