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 price of a shipload of L.N.G., which might have sold for $20 million two years ago, soared to perhaps $200 million last summer, and is now about half that, with winter fast approaching.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

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

Undaunted, Raleigh sent John White back to Virginia in 1587 with a shipload of men, women, and children.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 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