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Example sentences for "freights"

Lexicographically close words:
freightage; freighted; freighter; freighters; freighting; freilich; freind; freindis; freinds; freke
  1. It has discriminated in freights and fares and, at every station on its many thousands of miles of railroad, maintained a Custom House of its own.

  2. Railroad fares and freights were cheaper in California than anywhere else in the world, all things considered.

  3. Government charged huge freights on this line, killed young enterprise by excessive charges, gave no rebates even to German planters, and in other ways seemed indifferent to the fortunes of the sisal and rubber planters.

  4. Owin' to the freights that offered, he sailed for Alicant, an' made port just as the Spaniards were fittin' out an expedition against Algiers.

  5. Even though he didn't give very much for the freights we brought in, it wouldn't be a case of losin' three or four days out of every ten runnin' up to Baltimore.

  6. The roads not only refused to pro-rate, but actually demanded prepayment of freights from Galveston on, as local rates.

  7. Agreements for a scale of cross freights by wholesalers' or jobbers' associations as in Ohio for groceries or hardware are equally effective.

  8. In some years the difference even exceeded two milliards, and was compensated by credits abroad, with the payment of freights and with the remittances (always considerable) of the German emigrants.

  9. It was possible in Italy for long periods of time to obtain most favourable freights and have coal at almost the same price as in England.

  10. With what means must she carry out her payments if she is obliged to cede a large part of her customs receipts, that is of her best form of monetary value, and if she has no longer either credits or freights abroad?

  11. Freights on shipments from Brazil had advanced from one dollar and twenty cents per bag early in the year to unheard-of prices; and, before the bubble burst, had reached as high as four dollars per bag.

  12. So the competition of the Canadian transcontinental at the Red River and at the '500' ensures cheaper freights for all Minnesota and Dakota, and the effect extends clear down into Nebraska and Iowa.

  13. So whatever extent the competing Canadian roads cause our contiguous roads to lower their freights so much the better for the public.

  14. On the other hand, trade would be sensibly revived by it, the intolerable price of freights would be reduced, and the public would reap an immense benefit by the payments mentioned in the proposal; as - 1.

  15. Freights and insurance are responsible for a fourth important source of demand for foreign exchange.

  16. With freights it is the same proposition, except that the proportion of American shipping business done by foreign companies is much greater than the proportion of insurance business done by foreign companies.

  17. Chiefly because of the difficulty and uncertainty of a market, and the high charges for freights and commission.

  18. They generally start life--a life of at least fifty years if faithfully built and kept up--with freights of cement and grain, and such cargoes as would be spoilt in a leaky vessel.

  19. To-day, on all passenger trains and on many freights as well, the automatic brakes are operated by compressed air controlled by the engineman.

  20. Lumber is scarce and high, and freights enormous.

  21. They remained, willing exiles, to share the constant employment and large freights which the sudden withdrawal of their compatriots had opened to British navigation.

  22. Freights of course were high, and but little attention paid by merchants to the crafts they chartered.

  23. As a last resort, I determined to proceed up the Hudson River as far as Rondout, where I expected to procure some small freights of coal to deliver at the neighboring villages on the river.

  24. He spent his evenings poring over accounts, or making endless calculations based on cheaper freights for copra and on the possible maximum and minimum market prices for that staple of commerce.

  25. My dearest wish is the success of Berande," Joan had just said, apropos of a discussion about the cheapening of freights on copra to market.

  26. We had been sorting stray freights all the afternoon on old dinky 97, and had sided to let a passenger go by, when I noticed a man with a bag and a stick picking up coal along the tracks.

  27. The owner of an old brig which I knew very well was induced by the high rate of freights from Montreal to fix her to load a cargo of heavy grain from that port.

  28. Like Oliver, "asking for more," they are positively raising these freights also!

  29. Third, it will operate as a check to the pretensions of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to entire monopoly of the transportation of the State, and its boasted consequent ability to fix fares and freights at its own sweet will.

  30. Railway, giving us, in a word, the benefits of as low freights in winter as in summer.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.