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 Miller later sent Harding into halftime with its seven-point lead after scoring on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds remaining in the second quarter. — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026 Skubal’s outing Friday sent him into the first-round bye on a high note. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026 By changing the current sent to the motor, the researchers can set its jump height with single-centimeter accuracy. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026 The October 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 5 days. — Judith Y. Kim, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2026 Instead, the text simply informed her that the grand jury had filed their report earlier that day and that one of her lawyers had been sent a copy. — Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026 Bloomberg reported this week that Oracle’s decision to invoke force majeure on a New Mexico data center sent the cost of insuring its debt against default to a record. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 Meadows was sent home for a couple of weeks to recover before ultimately returning to the boat. — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026 The biggest loser in the rainout was Blaney, whose contact with Hocevar while running in the top 5 at Bristol sent him into the wall and to a 33rd-place finish. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sent

Verb

The rise and fall of Funko Funko began in 1998 when T-shirt designer Mike Becker decided bobbleheads would be the next big thing and shipped them out of his garage.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Companies assume operational capability is a tangible asset that can be boxed up and shipped.

— Thanh Pham, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of shipped

Verb

With one of the expansion club’s games being transmitted around the globe via Armed Forces Radio, Matthews had the presence of mind to send out a greeting to Steve Laub, a football teammate at Illinois Wesleyan serving in Vietnam.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
The hard shell then has lower forces transmitted to it, and in turn conveys lower forces to the interior soft helmet padding and then lower forces to the head.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of transmitted

Verb

The boat was removed from the Santa Rosa Island beach by a towing company and transported to Ventura Harbor, the service said.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The prevalence of water-bearing minerals in the Bennu sample also suggests that water-ice that sublimated into vapor just inside the snow line was also part of the material that was transported into the region where Bennu and its cousins were built.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of transported

Verb

Those transactions generated more than $643,000, which Abplanalp then transferred to his personal account, prosecutors said.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Continue reading … TAX DOLLARS FOR HIRE — Suspects in Haitian president's assassination transferred to Miami, accused of funding plot with COVID fraud.

— , FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of transferred

Verb

Set just before the 1973 Chilean coup, Malkovich and Rockwell play CIA agents Chris and Lee, respectively, who are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief (Steve Buscemi).

— Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Several firefighters dispatched to such incidents this summer described waiting for reinforcements, both crews and equipment, that sometimes never arrived.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026