courier

Example Sentences

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They hold moisture, yes — but they also carry spice into the interior like a well-trained courier.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

In October Polish and Romanian authorities said they thwarted a Russian plot to send incendiary packages through a Ukrainian courier service, including devices intended to ignite in Bucharest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Her Alawi identity rendered her especially useful as a revolutionary courier; police never imagined her capable of betraying the regime.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Warsh, a 55-year-old economist, is a fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and serves on the board of courier service UPS.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Mudd went to Washington to introduce Booth to a Confederate courier named John Harrison Surratt.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson