How do you use Shipment in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cargo or going, plus the exact meaning.
Shipment meaning
- A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
- The act of transporting goods.
Synonyms of Shipment
Using Shipment
- The main meaning on this page is: A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship). | The act of transporting goods.
- Useful related words include: cargo, going, departure, despatch.
- In the example corpus, shipment often appears in combinations such as: shipment of, the shipment, for shipment.
Context around Shipment
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shipment
- In this selection, "shipment" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, normal, door, advanced, outside, notification and map stand out and add context to how "shipment" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 pound shipment of fentanyl and a new shipment is expected. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shipment" sits close to words such as affiliation, billing and concession, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shipment
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that’s on shipment. (5 words)
A new shipment is expected the week of Monday, July 31. (11 words)
Apparently, this had been found in a shipment of bananas and was without doubt a tarantula. (16 words)
Edward Omatseye (a.k.a Montana) coordinated the illicit drug trade activities for them in Nigeria, with Nnochiri Chidinma Promise as representative of Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company responsible for the shipment of illicit consignments into the country. (39 words)
An Australian and Iranian man, aged 38 and 41, were arrested and charged in June after attempting to collect a shipment from Iran containing 23 mats which had been soaked and infused with opium. (34 words)
Bragging about it on Twitter like they just seized a 10,000 pound shipment of fentanyl from Mexico smuggled inside condoms inside of live tarantulas is a several levels of escalation from that. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The shipment was green lighted in Uruguay without inspection despite its unusual nature: It had four containers of soybeans, a much smaller quantity than a normal shipment would contain.
Some residents believe the incident may be connected to a shipment of waste from a Shell Canada plant in Caroline, Alta. But there’s no clarity on what was in that shipment.
Depending on the walking area cards subdivided into: *cards for shipment within the Russian Federation (internal post); *cards for shipment outside of the Russian Federation (international postage).
Shipment of cargo by trucks, directly from the shipper's place to the destination, is known as a door to door shipment and more formally as multimodal transport.
This is the case in the Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN) which was designed to inform the receiver of a shipment, the goods to be received and how the goods are packaged.
A Customs officer referred the driver and shipment to “an intensive agriculture inspection,” says the news release.
After two weeks, you'll automatically get a restock shipment of two cartridge razors for $20 (or more if you add additional products).
An Australian and Iranian man, aged 38 and 41, were arrested and charged in June after attempting to collect a shipment from Iran containing 23 mats which had been soaked and infused with opium.
And that’s on shipment.
A new shipment is expected the week of Monday, July 31.
Apparently, this had been found in a shipment of bananas and was without doubt a tarantula.
A Reddit user named proudcatownerss has shared a clip from a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Shipment map.
Authorities also seized a shipment of elvers, or baby eels, on April 5 at the Halifax airport worth $112,000.
Beijing signed a deal with Brazil last year to buy the country’s corn, with the first shipment arriving in January.
Border Force agents isolated the shipment in a radioactive room and, upon determining it was uranium, called in counter-terror police.
Bragging about it on Twitter like they just seized a 10,000 pound shipment of fentanyl from Mexico smuggled inside condoms inside of live tarantulas is a several levels of escalation from that.
Despite these initiatives, we continue to experience high rates of malaria mortality,” stated Dr. Austin Demby, the Minister of Health, upon receiving a shipment of malaria vaccines at Lungi International Airport.
Edward Omatseye (a.k.a Montana) coordinated the illicit drug trade activities for them in Nigeria, with Nnochiri Chidinma Promise as representative of Ben Cargo Ltd, a freight company responsible for the shipment of illicit consignments into the country.
Further, there was greater collaboration among domestic agencies through several successful joint operations; the discovery and destruction of illegal airstrips, and sharing of information on trans-shipment routes – maritime & air.
Get a one-time shipment of 15 bottles of wine from Wine Insiders for just $79.99.
Common combinations with shipment
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shipment of 77×
- the shipment 38×
- for shipment 13×
- first shipment 13×
- shipment to 9×
- shipment and 8×
- shipment in 7×
- in shipment 6×
- shipment was 5×
- shipment from 5×