How to use shipment in a sentence

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• He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.From the entry advance
• By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.From the entry shy
• The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.From the entry facebook
• Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.From the entry shrink-wrap
• They sold out of concert posters yesterday and won't get another shipment until next week.From the entry sell out
• The unglued joints all fell apart in shipment, but the properly joined piece survived intact.From the entry unglued
• The flood victims received an eleemosynous shipment of supplies from donors in nearby towns.From the entry eleemosynous
• The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.From the entry zero
• The shipment is en route to the buyer.From the entry en route
• Shipments without a valid RMA number will not be accepted.From the entry RMA
• The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.From the entry surplus
• The express company could only handle shipments door to door on the West Coast, needing others to reach the rest of the country.From the entry door to door
• They said their product will be ready for shipment in two months and we could even "take that to the bank", but we’ve heard that before. Seeing is believing.From the entry seeing is believing
• CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the…. From the entry currently
• The warehouses that first occupied the triangle hosted shipments in transit from one business to another: B2B.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry B2B
• TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?.2019 October 7, Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson, 21:00 from the start, in Power(Like Father, Like Son), season 6…. From the entry distro
• This part of the country is a clearinghouse for millions of shipments every year.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian. From the entry clearinghouse
• Cables accounted for only 16% of the short shipments and misshipments.2017, Paul Gardiner, Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach, page 233. From the entry misshipment
• Chinese customs officers there opened documents that had been sealed since the shipment left Chongqing.2013 July 20, Keith Bradsher, “Hauling New Treasure Along the Silk Road”, in The New York Times (Business section), New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry Dzungarian Gate
• Improvements were made to the accuracy of estimated revenues for uninvoiced shipments.1994, Thomas D. Clark, Power Communication: Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise, page 148. From the entry uninvoiced
• “We was not ridin’ with a shipment of fleur-de-lisses,” Phineas countered.1942 December, Joe Archibald, “Pot Luck”, in Flying Aces, page 29. From the entry fleur-de-lis
• The resulting shipments have been called by critics of the basing point practice “cross-hauling”.1940, UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION T.N.E.C. PAPERS, VOLUME III THE BASING POINT METHOD, United States Steel Corporation, page 5. From the entry crosshaul
• I hear they got a fresh shipment of Wild Turkey."2005, Gregory G Sarno, When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again: Three Soldiers, Three Wars, page 262. From the entry wild turkey
• Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies.2002, NLRB Advice Memorandum Reporter, Labor Relations Press, page 100. From the entry grapefruit
• Glass or plastic cages may be used for short local trips, but wooden cages must be used for interzoo shipment.1995, Murray E Fowler, Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals. From the entry interzoo
• To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.1962 Oct. 22, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address to the American People. From the entry quarantine
• "How soon can we have a shipment?"1952 March, Kendell Foster Crossen, “Things of Distinction”, in Startling Stories, volume 25, number 2, page 115. From the entry spacegram
• Confusion follows and shipments intended for consignees in one town are frequently misforwarded to those in the other.1927, The Express Messenger - Volumes 10-11, page 16. From the entry misforward
• Another transportation innovation is the development of megacarriers, freight transportation companies that offer several shipment methods, including rail, truck, and air service.2016, William M. Pride, Foundations of Marketing, page 357. From the entry megacarrier
• A short shipment is when items are listed in the shipping document but not included in the shipment and not received by the recipient.2014, Sunder Gee, Fraud and Fraud Detection, page 236. From the entry short-ship
• This boat hoist facility at Bryant's Marina, Inc., Seattle, Wash., is a handy haul-out, whether for repair, storage , shipment or other reasons.1959, Andrew R. Mack, Frederic R. Harris, Boat Handling Equipment in the Modern Marina, page 14. From the entry haul-out
• The policy would be a “facultative” policy, whereby the insurers would first have assessed the risk involved in the particular shipment and decided to accept it.2020, Jonathan Mance et al., editors, Insurance Disputes, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 584. From the entry facultative
• Another company with ties to U.S. businesses is Xinjiang Nuodun Garment, which has made several shipments of men’s and women’s trousers to four companies in the U.S.2019 November 16, Juozapas Bagdonas, “Tracking Down the Fruits of Xinjiang’s Forced Labor Industry”, in The Diplomat, archived from the…. From the entry Kalpin
• Halogen dominates standard bulb shipments, the association reported, representing almost half of the total, followed by CFLs at about 27 percent, a share that is on the decline.2016 February 1, Diane Cardwell, “G.E. to Phase Out CFL Bulbs”, in The New York Times. From the entry dominate
• We had to intercept, load, and run the shipment to our smaller, faster T-Crafts and well boats waiting near the shore to take it to a stash house.2015 April, Tim McBride; with Ralph Berrier, Jr., Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s…. From the entry well-boat
• Only commercial shipments of Shiranuhui and Setoka citrus can be imported, and will have to comply to the same requirements as shipments of Unshu oranges from South Korea.2015 February 3, Gabrielle Easter, “Unshu hybrids gain US access”, in Fruit Net. From the entry setoka

Meaning of shipment

1. noun A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
2. noun The act of transporting goods.

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Questions about shipment in a sentence

How do you use shipment in a sentence?

Shipment is used as a noun. For example: “We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.”

What is a short sentence with shipment?

“"How soon can we have a shipment?"”

What does shipment mean?

Shipment means a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).