How to Use courier in a Sentence

courier

noun
  • A courier just left a package for you on the porch.
  • Police recently arrested a drug courier in our neighborhood.
  • The office sent a courier to her house to pick up the check.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Wait, the courier and the call girl are stripping down!
    Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
  • The victims were told to provide the cash to a courier who would be sent to their home.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The courier then gets a prompt on their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks.
    Jack Moore, GQ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Thursday morning, a courier knocked on the door and picked up the router.
    David Kravets, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But the revamp is now spurring the courier’s biggest share gains since 1998.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
  • So, of course, the critical moment, the turning point for the whole story is the lead to the courier.
    CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • The heart surgery done, the team waited for the courier delivering the stem cells.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • About this time, Sharon says, Holmes began working as a courier for the Mob.
    Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The bank would send couriers to her office to pick up cash from her practice.
    Rob Copeland, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • According to Advent, the courier tripled in size over the past five years.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 July 2024
  • That means the lab must send samples via courier to outside labs.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2020
  • One courier in Seoul, Kim Dong-hee, returned home at 2 a.m. on Oct. 7.
    New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Around noon Wednesday, the woman gave the money to the courier, who then left the area, the sheriff’s office said.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Patrick Sandoval, courier of the pregame lineup card, picked up his sixth-straight win.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • Dozens of couriers throughout the U.S. would then collect the drug profits and use the dirty money to buy scrap and fine gold.
    Beth Warren, courier-journal.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 June 2023
  • Thrasher said a courier comes twice a day and takes the swab samples to a lab in Birmingham.
    al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Todorova paid drivers $37.50 an hour, the courier told the DEA.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The team offered to send a courier to get the banner first thing on Wednesday morning.
    Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • And this detainee said that Abu Ahmed was a courier for bin Laden, was somebody who was close to bin Laden.
    CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • From there, an Uber courier will pick up the order and deliver it to your door.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 12 June 2019
  • Instead, records show, the Ohio State Highway Patrol stopped the courier and seized the money.
    John Caniglia, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • These dogs are so smart that some of them have found work in places like tracking, courier work, and sniffing.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Williams said her agent received the postcard, via courier, from Trump.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In January, Johnson sent the letter to the White House by courier.
    Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • My daughter works in a fast-food chain and my son does courier work, but that is only enough for our meals.
    New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Wilson will play Ben, the medical courier that Ritchson is begrudgingly forced to transport and protect.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025

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