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 one point, the store received a shipment of about 250 desks.
  — Chantel Tattoli, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• All of the shipments except the final one were sent to Enola, Pa.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
• Ahead of your first shipment, Shots Box sends you five minis of whiskey picked just for you.
  — Kate Dingwall, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• 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
• One Florida doctor said the new shipments are not enough to fully meet the need.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 29 June 2023
• The shipment contains enough food for almost half a million meals.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
• That person might decide to show up at this point and take the shipment or exact revenge.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• By the time the tumor tissue reached Dr. Epstein days later, the shipment seemed useless.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The previous vessel to use the corridor left Aug. 16 with a shipment of grain.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• The attacks have blocked shipping in the Red Sea, which is a key route for global trade and energy shipments.
  — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
• But when the shipments arrived in Carlsbad, hundreds of people cheered along the highway.
  — Daniel Moore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Unbeknownst to him, a shipment of unsold copies of Cold Fact made its way to Australia.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The United States approved the shipment of Patriot missiles to Ukraine late last year.
  — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Most stores get shipments on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that is when the inventory will be the freshest.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• Hopes faded that the Israeli and Palestinian sides would work out differences to allow the shipment into Gaza by the end of the day as planned.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• At one point in our interview, 40’s shipment of wine arrives.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• Fentanyl shipments has been found hidden in food items before.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2023
• Heck, most of the first shipment will likely be absorbed by dealer principals before the public even gets a shot.
  — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2023
• Metro this month received its first shipment of fully electric buses to launch the first phase of its bus fleet conversion.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• The shipment was part of a fledgling effort to ferry more aid into the territory via a maritime route.
  — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Those shipments accounted for at least 56 percent of all the fuel oil the Greek refinery received by ship.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• So far, the EU has handed out close to €6 billion to member states to partially compensate them for arms shipments to Ukraine.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 27 June 2023
• Refrigerated shipments cannot just sit at a loading dock for hours or days on end awaiting the next shift to be moved to cold storage.
  — Nicole Glenn, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• There would not nearly be the number of shipments coming in today if this president wasn't pushing hard for change.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024