shipload
Example Sentences
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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
The shipload of equipment is just the latest frustration Russians are having with a leader they claim is out of touch.
From Fox News ● Apr. 22, 2020
Fillmore later joined the Whig Party at a time of mounting hostility to refugees from famine, rebellion and tyranny who were arriving by the shipload at the gates of the New World.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
The very real fear that the British would free America’s enslaved people was as important as a shipload of tea or a slogan such as “No taxation without representation.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
