How to Use shipload in a Sentence

shipload

noun

• Shiploads of settlers came to the New World.
• The British Royal Navy did something where an entire shipload of [people] sang each part of the song.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
• Low-tech goods that China sells by the shipload would be mostly untouched.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• About 15 years ago, a shipload of scud missiles from North Korea heading to Yemen was captured.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• In America the prices of many goods would jump and those of others, like the soyabeans exported to China by the shipload, would plummet.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Winning’s vessels ferry about 200 shiploads a year to Chinese ports.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• In addition to the shiploads of current-release Dom that are launched about a decade after their birth, many more bottles are held back in the cellar, resting on their lees.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• India sent two shiploads of goods and some medical staff, and the United States and Pakistan also promised relief supplies.
  — Bharatha Mallawarachi, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
• In between, Lyons said, the tariffs were adding $4 million to $6 million to the cost of every shipload arriving from Mexico.
  — al, 19 Sep. 2019
• Five actors play a shipload of characters in this new comedy, ticketed for a Sept. 29 to Oct. 20 engagement.
  — Daily Pilot, 5 Aug. 2019
• When North Korean coal exports were forbidden, some shiploads were channeled through Russia to hide their origin.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• The most notable find was a wreck containing a shipload of mid-3rd-century B.C. amphorae, or ancient jars, from various locations around the Mediterranean.
  — Fox News, 10 Aug. 2019
• The federal safety inspectors who protect kids from dangerous and deadly toys were not standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the U.S. by the shipload.
  — Brett Murphy, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• All that’s really going on here is a shipload of jump scares, which are adequately handled if never remotely inspired.
  — Dennis Harvey, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The recycling industry has been reeling after China and other overseas markets, which used to buy America’s plastic trash by the shipload, halted shipments in recent years.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• For British and American traders, however, the profits to be made by smuggling far outweighed any moral considerations; a single shipload of opium was worth tens of millions of dollars in today’s currency.
  — Randall Fuller, WSJ, 19 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024