shipment

Example Sentences

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The company received 10,000 preorders, and its first shipment is expected later this year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Automated conveyor belts shuttle boxes of wine along to a massive pallet wrapper, like a giant cling film dispenser twirling the pallets around ready for shipment.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Every shipment that makes it across the desert blunts the pressure from a closed strait and gives Gulf governments room to wait out the negotiations and shift the balance of power.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

On a cold January night, he found himself hauling a shipment of meat across several Midwestern states.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

The way Rat told it, she came in by helicopter along with the daily resupply shipment out of Chu Lai.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien