How to Use importation in a Sentence

importation

noun

• At the time, slavery was still legal in the U.S., though importation of slaves had been a crime since 1808.
  — Connor Sheets, AL.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• By 1860, the date of Lewis’ capture, the forced importation of humans had been banned in the U.S. for more than half a century.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 20 Dec. 2017
• The range of the dog tick is spreading, and the importation of dogs carrying the ticks is not helping matters any.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 June 2023
• That outbreak was traced to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• In 1808, the Unites States banned the importation of slaves, effectively putting an end to the transatlantic slave trade.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• When the British took the colony nearly four decades later, renaming it for the Duke of York, the importation of slaves began in earnest.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• That spurred the importation of up to 1,500 animals per month for a time, though the country later banned the practice.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 29 July 2019
• The Irish served as a source of cheap labor following the U.S.’s 1808 ban on the importation of enslaved people.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• That outbreak, the first reported from outside of Africa, was traced back to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 May 2022
• The plan is only authorized for two years from the date the agency is told about the first drug importation shipment, according to the FDA.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the United States, the importation of people for the purpose of enslavement had been outlawed since 1808.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• Opponents called for a ban on the importation of lion trophies to the United States.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• Australia has strict policies on the importation of food products in its effort to keep foot and mouth disease out of the country.
  — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the case of Lebanon, a country whose lifeblood has been the importation of capital, capital controls would be a killer.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
• Fortunately, there were no deaths; the U.S. banned the importation of giant pouched rats.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• Azar used to be a skeptic of importation, and was once quoted dismissing it as a gimmick.
  — Author: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
• India quickly tried to head off similar protests by banning the importation of the book.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
• In the past years, the most common places from which measles importations originated were in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024
• For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have proposed importation as a tool to cut prices.
  — Tomas J. Philipson, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
• Companies from around the globe send their crude oil to American refineries, which counts as crude-oil importation to the U.S.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Beyond that, the area will need to fund a water importation project from Rockport Reservoir — which requires planning about five years ahead of time.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2021
• President Biden did stop the importation of Russian oil to this country.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• But Mississippi does not allow the importation of whitetails to the state.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2020
• Azar, who once held those same concerns, now insists drug importation can be done safely.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
• In practice, the requirement would prevent the ITC from barring the importation of patent-infringing goods except in the rarest of cases.
  — Andrei Iancu, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• In 1808, the transatlantic importation of African captives was outlawed.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
• Congress had banned the importation of enslaved persons in 1808.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• There are several kinds, and their production and importation here has been phased out, but many older AC units can still use old stocks to keep them running.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Of those nations, 33 have banned the sale or importation of vapes entirely, though e-cigarette black markets thrive in some of these countries, including India and Turkey.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 July 2024
• The first, in the District of Columbia, includes cocaine and methamphetamine importation, firearm possession, and conspiracy to obstruct justice through murder.
  — Karol Suárez, CNN, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024