shipload
IPA: ʃˈɪpɫoʊd
noun
- (nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
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Examples of "shipload" in Sentences
- Palamedes set out also and returned with a shipload.
- Palamedes set out and returned with a shipload of grain.
- We are exporting dollars by the shipload, which is one huge drag.
- Each man thinks the shipload is the rottenest gang ever thrown together.
- He buys the shipload and inspects the workers bringing it out from the river.
- 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.
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