How to Use courier in a Sentence

courier

noun
  • A courier just left a package for you on the porch.
  • Police recently arrested a drug courier in our neighborhood.
  • The goal was to keep them on the line long enough for the courier to show up.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That means the lab must send samples via courier to outside labs.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The courier then gets a prompt on their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks.
    Jack Moore, GQ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The bank would send couriers to her office to pick up cash from her practice.
    Rob Copeland, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Thursday morning, a courier knocked on the door and picked up the router.
    David Kravets, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The victims were told to provide the cash to a courier who would be sent to their home.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Algorithms map the fastest routes for couriers.
    Kurt Knutsson May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links., FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The courier came to collect tens of thousands from the woman.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • These dogs are so smart that some of them have found work in places like tracking, courier work, and sniffing.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • My daughter works in a fast-food chain and my son does courier work, but that is only enough for our meals.
    New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But in healthcare, the patient is still too often the courier.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Alerts feel timely, and talking through the camera helps with couriers.
    PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And then the second courier that was supposed to get the body parts picked up [the women’s box].
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Patrick Sandoval, courier of the pregame lineup card, picked up his sixth-straight win.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • The fruitcake didn’t need to be baked—it could be dropped off by an Uber Eats courier.
    Rafaela Jinich, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 June 2023
  • The courier, a man named Seth Wayne, drove in from Tampa.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The courier heads to the store and asks for approval before making a purchase.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • From there, an Uber courier will pick up the order and deliver it to your door.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 12 June 2019
  • The scammers then direct the victims to withdraw cash to buy gold and hand it over to a courier.
    J.d. Miles, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The heart surgery done, the team waited for the courier delivering the stem cells.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • According to Advent, the courier tripled in size over the past five years.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 July 2024
  • A little lowly courier work, yes, but nothing more raffish than that.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Once the firearms are bought by straw purchasers, they are moved across the southern border through brokers and couriers.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • But the revamp is now spurring the courier’s biggest share gains since 1998.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
  • When a customer orders food, the courier will walk into the restaurant to pick up the order.
    Gustavo Castillo, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The man comes to realize that the only way out of his current jam is by agreeing to work as a drug courier.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The team offered to send a courier to get the banner first thing on Wednesday morning.
    Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018

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