ship out

verb

shipped out; shipping out; ships out

: to leave one place and go to another for military duties

The troops will be shipping out next month.

Examples of ship out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For decades, the debate around Africa’s natural resources has largely been over who gets the value from what the continent digs up and ships out. — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026

The Iran war is disrupting Middle Eastern refineries from shipping out their products, while Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out roughly 40% of Russia’s refining capacity. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

With steel and aluminum in limited supply in World War II, Allied forces gave serious consideration to a proposal made by English inventor Geoffrey Pyke to build ships out of little more than frozen water. — Mike McRae 16, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026

Chakya also shipped out Brandon Carlo and Simon Benoit, both of whom would have to crouch to get into an airplane bathroom. — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for ship out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout