How to Use shipment in a Sentence

shipment

noun

• This box is ready for shipment.
• We sent out another shipment of books.
• My order was delivered in two shipments.
• At the end of the year, that was up to 45 million shipments per month.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
• The first oil shipment through the Northern Sea Route took place in 2019.
  — Elina Ganatra, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
• At one point, the store received a shipment of about 250 desks.
  — Chantel Tattoli, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• The shipment arrived just a few days ahead of the first of three spacewalks.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 30 Aug. 2021
• This marked the third time Sanders has forced a vote to block arms shipments to Israel.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
• The person said that the pagers were part of a shipment of about 5,000 units brought in by Hezbollah.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• The law is designed and intended to prevent the shipment of the drugs in the first place.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• When the shipment of six fun pieces arrives, it’s bound to be the highlight of your month.
  — Yolanda Wikiel, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2023
• All of the shipments except the final one were sent to Enola, Pa.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
• The photos showed the second New Yorker putting a dope shipment in the mail.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• The outbreak was traced to a shipment of small mammals from Ghana that were sold as pets.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 16 July 2021
• Ahead of your first shipment, Shots Box sends you five minis of whiskey picked just for you.
  — Kate Dingwall, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• The first shipment will be available at Target stores in the coming weeks, the White House said.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 1 June 2022
• At the same time, corn prices climbed, thanks to the resumption of shipments to the Soviet Union.
  — Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
• The first shipment of tests will arrive at some point in January, the White House said.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• Airfreight is roughly eight times the cost of sea shipment.
  — Garth Friesen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The consignee of the cans in Germany was told of the plan to destroy the shipment on April 17 and did not contest the decision, the trade group said.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• He was supposed to receive a shipment of frozen salmon from the Alaska lodge.
  — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• That step halted the shipment of any goods that were made at the factory while the teens were employed.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• The shipment, expected to be enough to last the state three years, arrived in March and cost about $1.28 million.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• When full, the vehicle will make a half-mile journey up the dirt road to where 7,500 dairy cows await the next shipment of fresh feed.
  — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• The try-on period ends 7 days from the day your last shipment arrives.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2021
• Pluchar said there was a tight turnaround to meet the deadline for Saints Peter and Paul’s next shipment.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• Users will need to create an account to set up seafood shipments.
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2025
• In protest, Egypt has halted shipments of aid through its border with Gaza.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 24 May 2024
• The agency processes more than 4 million de minimis shipments each day.
  — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
• Postal services across Europe are suspending shipments to the United States as a duty-free exemption for low-value packages is set to expire next week.
  — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025