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 So, when Thursday’s term sheet was sent to the Blazers, the team was put off by asks from the city, particularly the $3 million annual fee for a property tax offset and a requirement that the team hires union workers. — Jason Quick, New York Times, 21 July 2026 So Iran sent all of that oil toward China, by far its biggest customer before and during the war. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 21 July 2026 The collision then sent the Eclipse to the right and into the driver side of a 2020 Nissan Sentra in the right lane, according to state police. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026 The defending champions managed to hold Spain to a draw in the regulation 90 minutes, which ended with combative midfielder Enzo Fernandez being sent off after a reckless challenge in injury time. — Mark Hodge, NBC news, 20 July 2026 The village’s website reported that in the proposal sent to the Board, the developer shared that the market-rate price per unit would be between $600,000 and $1 million. — Alexandra Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 The prospect of Burnham, considered more left-leaning than Starmer, replacing the incumbent prime minister sent jitters through bond markets earlier this year. — Chloe Taylor,joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 20 July 2026 Requests for comment were also sent to the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, which represents New York City's correction officers, and the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit criminal justice reform organization. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 It’s celebrated on July 14 because that’s the day Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in 1789, helping spark the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy and sent King Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette to the guillotine. — ABC News, 14 July 2026

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Verb

Once they were shipped off to the leprosy colony, the businessmen would seize the land; stuck across the water as a patient on Molokai, the local person had no access to legal remedy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Trump has threatened to target Iran’s power stations and bridges to try to compel Tehran to loosen its hold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of world oil supplies were shipped before the war.

— Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

Definition of shipped

Verb

The health of Welsh has much to do with the fact that it is being transmitted, particularly in north Wales, by parents to children in the ordinary, unself-conscious way one associates with any living vernacular.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
It's transmitted when a person breathes in water vapor that is contaminated with the legionella bacteria.

— Mike Stunson, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of transmitted

Verb

The skeleton was transported to New York and went on display for public viewing at the Breuer building from July 1-14 before the auction.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Fire paramedics pronounced two people dead at the scene, and a third was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of transported

Verb

Connecticut’s own tax fairness studies also show regressive tax burdens are more easily transferred from one entity to another.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
In the case of the missing children, they may have been trapped under the rubble, separated from their relatives, transferred without immediate communication or belonged to entire families whose whereabouts remain unknown.

— Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026

Definition of transferred

Verb

Having only lost seven of 146 European qualifiers over the previous three decades, Spain were routinely dispatched without Angus Gunn making one great save.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Officers from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) Police Department were dispatched to the surrounding area in Cheektowaga to investigate, per the complaint.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026