SENT Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

sent

verb

Definition of sent

past tense of send

as in shipped

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another they promised to send the package in the morning

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Recent Examples of sent And periodic ceasefires during the war sent global oil prices lower – only to rise again whenever those agreements have lapsed or run out. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 Pakistan, which played a key role in brokering a 60-day ceasefire in June, sent a high-level delegation to Iran on Monday to discuss ending the war, the military said. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 If she's found not criminally responsible, she will be sent to a state psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 Among those who sent messages included former Marlins broadcaster Rich Waltz and players Kevin Millar, Dan Uggla, Josh Beckett and Steve Cisheck. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026 Crew members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln finally have a port call scheduled, according to texts sent to family members and shared with USA TODAY. — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 By mid-May the company had sent a list of potential concessions to Bonta, added the person. — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026 He was sent by a former Hells Angels member who lived in Iran. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 The Zoom link will be sent to registrants as soon as their participation is confirmed. — Vogue Business Team, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2026

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Daniels later pleaded guilty to assault and was shipped off to prison, but shortly before he was released in early 2018, he was transferred to Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City and signed up for a prison college course.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026
The 5-year-old horse had shipped to the seaside track north of San Diego from the East Coast after a win in the Monmouth Cup five weeks ago in New Jersey.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of shipped

Verb

It's usually transmitted through a bite from a bat, coyote, fox, raccoon or skunk.

— Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
Processing that information in orbit can reduce the amount of raw data that has to be transmitted to Earth, where space-to-ground communications capacity can become a bottleneck.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of transmitted

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Instead, detectives say the group used falsified invoices and documents and transferred cash into personal bank accounts.

— Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Defense lawyers have argued that the CIA’s treatment of Mohammed undermined the voluntariness of his later statements to the FBI, even though those interrogations took place after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of transferred

Verb

Around midnight on Friday morning, a member of a team dispatched to monitor the lake told CCTV the barrier forming the lake stretched about 150 meters long and 40 or 50 meters high.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
The report states that on the morning of May 23, police were dispatched to Jacobs’ home near Green Bay because of a disturbance between Jacobs and a woman described as his girlfriend.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026