shipload

IPA: ʃˈɪpɫoʊd

Examples of "shipload" in Sentences

We are exporting dollars by the shipload, which is one huge drag.
Each man thinks the shipload is the rottenest gang ever thrown together.
Cities along the Great Lakes used to rule the American economy, manufacturing steel by the shipload.
They point out that the wholesale price of chicken dropped 5 percent when the first shipload from the U.S. cleared customs on Oct. 1.
The economics of bringing over a shipload of individual titles and re-printing them made sense; though the typefaces and bits of presses were usually imported, the raw materials for paper, binding and ink were readily available.
The real impetus of the Highland emigration to North Carolina was the arrival, in 1739, of a "shipload," under the guidance of Neil McNeill, of Kintyre, Scotland, who settled also on the Cape Fear, amongst those who had preceded him.
He was referring to the medical staff aboard and, as they constituted only a round dozen, they could hardly have been called a shipload: he was also conveniently overlooking the fact that every member of the crew, from himself downwards, was also, technically, a civilian.