ship out
phrasal 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.
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Swag itself opened with a respectable 163,000 overall units back in July despite having few physical album sales since his physical units hadn’t shipped out yet.
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Virgin Voyages The adults-only cruise line decks its ships out for Halloween and features special activities on select October sailings.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Perhaps the Bengals could ship out someone like Isaiah Williams or Kendric Pryor, both of whom are entering their second NFL seasons?
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Ukrainian drones now also target critical military infrastructure inside Russia, and keep Russian ships out of the Black Sea along the Ukrainian coast.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Virgin Voyages The adults-only cruise line decks its ships out for Halloween and features special activities on select October sailings.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Perhaps the Bengals could ship out someone like Isaiah Williams or Kendric Pryor, both of whom are entering their second NFL seasons?
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Ukrainian drones now also target critical military infrastructure inside Russia, and keep Russian ships out of the Black Sea along the Ukrainian coast.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ship out
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“Ship out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ship%20out. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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