shipload

Example Sentences

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Australia's national parliament on Monday introduced a bill to give powers to the government to underwrite the purchase of shiploads of fuel that will add to supply in Australia.

From Barron's

Why don’t you just send truckloads and shiploads of products to other countries and make a bunch of money?’” he said.

From Salon

The first shipload of captive Africans to arrive in the future United States came to Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in America—in August 1619.

From Literature

Dockworkers at the country’s four largest ports said they would stop unloading shiploads of Teslas on Tuesday in support of the strikers.

From New York Times

That means Mr. Ullrich must scour the world for shiploads of spoiled corn and other agricultural detritus to fill its tanks.

From New York Times