special delivery

Example Sentences

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If they were stopped by police, they were to tell officers they were a special delivery crew transferring radioactive material from the Dounreay nuclear power plant, near Thurso, for disposal at another site.

From BBC

Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.

From Seattle Times

But the River Thames is perhaps the choice for the most special deliveries - including an optical atomic clock.

From BBC

My father handed his friend some money in an envelope and off he went to drop off some other special deliveries to his customers.

From Salon

In the next few days, Mr. Wiggins will receive a special delivery from New York City: the last of the goldfish from underneath the tuberculosis hospital.

From New York Times