How to Use take delivery of in a Sentence

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• Virgin expects to take delivery of the first of the planes next year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• United intends to take delivery of eight of the jets this month, a spokesman said.
  — Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• The airport will take delivery of its first all-electric shuttle buses in June.
  — Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2021
• Emirates is expecting to take delivery of the planes by the end of 2026.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 17 July 2024
• Most customers take delivery of their vehicles at home, but those who live near one of the glass towers have the option to pick up their purchase.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• The line will take delivery of the Disney Destiny next year, the brand announced Wednesday.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
• The company is toying with the idea of allowing customers to take delivery of their pickups at the factory.
  — Roberto Baldwin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
• Auto News says some Toyota dealers tell them that customers are waiting two or three months just to take delivery of a new hybrid.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
• Even people who take delivery of new apartments are often reluctant to spend money on painting and furnishing.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Some consumers will ask for a dealership to deliver the vehicle to them; others want to take delivery of the car at a dealership.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
• In total, American expects to take delivery of 55 new aircraft this year.
  — Jordan Parker aviation, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
• If schedules stay on track, the Navy could take delivery of the first of these radical new warships sometime in 2007.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2021
• Tesla offered discounts to many buyers who agreed to take delivery of vehicles before January to goose sales in a year-end sales push.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• Holders of the contract upon expiration can’t take delivery of water, and sellers of the contract won’t provide any.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• The demand is so strong that customers are even forking out a reservation fee now to take delivery of high-power transformers in 2030.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
• Retailers are also placing overseas orders as ocean carriers take delivery of a record number of new containerships.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• The bear thesis is that if fuel prices continue to rise due to oil spikes and begin to erode travel demand, airlines may become less inclined to take delivery of new Boeing jets.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
• Even now, Ukraine is waiting to take delivery of more powerful and sophisticated weapons, including tanks and air defense systems.
  — Robyn Dixon and Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The airline expects to take delivery of the Dreamliners beginning in 2024.
  — Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Ocean carriers are starting to take delivery of container vessels ordered during the pandemic when demand for cargo space surged 20%.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2023
• Gathered around the plane are pilots and cabin crew, as well as two executives from Wizz Air, the low-cost Hungarian airline that is about to take delivery of it.
  — Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024
• The airline is set to take delivery of a new Boeing 787 soon and will receive one plane a month for the next year, increasing to two planes a month at the end of 2026.
  — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
• The quarrel reached a peak last year when China refused to take delivery of some Australian shipments of coal and slapped punitive tariffs on Australian wine, barley and shellfish.
  — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Within roughly two years of customers starting to take delivery of the first iX3s, technology within this new EV will be in all of the company’s vehicles.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
• AerCap will pay Spirit $150 million as part of the agreement, under which Spirit would still plan to take delivery of 30 more airplanes, the company said.
  — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• Fields said the adjacent site will be the future home to warehousing, parts suppliers, a customer center to take delivery of new vehicles and perhaps a Rivian farm-to-factory agricultural operation to feed plant workers.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• The average Soviet citizen typically waited years to take delivery of a small Zhiguli – based on a Fiat design – while the more substantial Volga sedan was mainly reserved for official use.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
• The car is so important to Cadillac that the person who bought it cannot take delivery of it for seven to 10 days so that Cadillac engineers and a team of specialists can inspect it and teach Cadillac of Novi's service technicians how to service it.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2022
• After listing his 252-foot superyacht, Boardwalk, for sale for roughly $192 million, Fertitta is ready to take delivery of a new 384-foot boat from Lürssen in April.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• In 2023, the Philippines became the first foreign country to take delivery of India's BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles as part of its military modernization program.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025