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Example sentences for "shipped"

Lexicographically close words:
shipowner; shipowners; shipowning; shipp; shippe; shipper; shippers; shippes; shipping; shippis
  1. Sometimes three hundred tons of butter per week are shipped to Copenhagen and one thousand tons to London.

  2. Sumatra leaf commands a high price, and a considerable amount of the best tobacco is shipped to Cuba and the United States.

  3. Yet so great was the prejudice against the Brazilian diamonds at first that for years many were secretly shipped to India and thence sent to the diamond market as Indian diamonds.

  4. The dairy products are shipped by rail to various parts of Europe, large quantities going to England and to Denmark, the home of dairying.

  5. The esparto grass is delivered to the nearest local market compressed in bales of five or six hundred weight, held together by a coarse netting of esparto weave, and shipped to Europe.

  6. At a later date, an abrasive company of Denver conceived the plan of grinding up these trunks to make emery because of their extreme hardness; in fact, a plant was shipped to Adamana station for that purpose.

  7. This balloon, with necessary accessories, was shipped to Danes Island, one of the Spitzbergen group.

  8. Millions of gallons of lubricating oil are shipped from Baku each year to all parts of Europe.

  9. There are those who whisper it about that much of the leaf is shipped to Cuba to be made into "Havana" cigars.

  10. Those same apples can be shipped half-way round the world and sold in England for a lower price than the apples shipped from Buffalo to New York City!

  11. The celery and canned asparagus are shipped to the produce markets of New York City.

  12. Of late years it has been shipped from Hodeida.

  13. Myriads of barrels of cement were shipped from the United States to Cristobal, an outskirt of Colon, thence carried by barges to Gatun or by railway to the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores lock sites.

  14. These nuts are collected by Indians on the Caribbean coast, brought to Colon, and there bought by merchants and shipped to New York and Hamburg.

  15. The illimitable resources of the province will be opened up, developed, and utilized at home or shipped abroad.

  16. Their manufactures, for the want of a ready or profitable market at home, have been shipped by the manufacturers to the United States, and in many instances sold at a price below their current value at the place of manufacture.

  17. By those routes the produce of the country was carried to the coast, and shipped thence to the mercantile houses in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, or other towns to which the trade was carried on.

  18. He began now to treat his prisoners with greater kindness, and on the first opportunity sent for them, and, exacting a simple oath that they would abandon piracy, shipped them on board the galleon fleet bound for Spain.

  19. If it fails to contract it there, it is sold and shipped in foul, undisinfected railway cars to dealers' stables, equally unclean, where it meets many opportunities of infection.

  20. He was purchased by a slave trader, who was not required to give security for his remaining in the District and he was soon shipped at Alexandria for one of the southern States.

  21. The several parts were made in different places, each establishment specializing in a particular part; they were then shipped to centers where they were transformed into completed machines.

  22. Boys shipped only for two years; they then got discharged and perhaps went roaming on distant voyages all over the earth, losing the discipline they had acquired.

  23. They were then shipped to Brazil as Portuguese “subjects.

  24. Of the sixty guns found at Alvarado thirty-five were shipped as trophies and twenty-five were destroyed.

  25. The "giant boles" are dragged in primitive fashion to the banks of the stream by elephants and buffaloes, and shipped in rafts.

  26. The rice and vegetables which these supply are shipped for the markets of Bangkok and Ayudia.

  27. You see, I took a load of Egypt down the Nanticoke to Norfolk, and shipped 'em to Orleens.

  28. Joe Johnson recognized one of his own familiars he had shipped at Cannon's Ferry, gagged, like his companion, and tied fast.

  29. I'll bet he shipped two hundred to China last year.

  30. Not a liter of dammargum has been shipped here.

  31. When the time for departure had arrived, the legions were marched through Italy to Rhegium, were shipped thence to Sicily and from Sicily were transferred to the African province.

  32. Most of the grain is shipped at Fort William and Port Arthur, the “twin cities” at the north-west angle of Lake Superior.

  33. At the upper end of Lake Superior again are the twin seaports, Fort William and Port Arthur, where millions of bushels of prairie grain are loaded yearly in a multitude of steamers and shipped down to ports on the eastern shores of Lake Huron.

  34. Kansas sent a great quantity of flour, and Mr. Wanamaker of Philadelphia shipped cargoes worth half a million dollars.

  35. One of our favourite trips was to Antwerp, where we went often, either to meet people landing from steamers from America or to look up boxes shipped us from home.

  36. Cartloads and trainloads of dead Germans were brought night and day to the Gare du Luxembourg to be shipped on to the Fatherland.

  37. When they heard about the base here, and saw what we'd shipped to Gram, they started changing their minds.

  38. About half of them wanted to be repatriated; they were given gifts of knives, tools, blankets, and bits of metal which seemed to be the chief standard of value and medium of exchange, and shipped home.

  39. These currants were shipped in a refrigerator car 90 miles down the river to Yonkers, New York, where the girls made them into jelly and currant juice, the sugar being donated by a local refinery.

  40. At the same time the firm of Boulton and Watt was formed, and in May, 1774, Watt shipped his trial engine south, and set out himself for Birmingham.

  41. In time he moved to Willington Quay, a village on the River Tyne, where coal was shipped to London.

  42. His success led him to order certain parts of a steam-engine from the firm of Boulton and Watt in Birmingham, these to be shipped to America.

  43. The knowledge that he had accumulated his fortune through the miseries of innocent girls shipped to foreign dance halls did not weigh greatly upon his mind.

  44. Nobody would suspect a carpenter, taken from a local firm and shipped with the captain's goodwill.

  45. This arrangement was made and carried out; the Mermaid sailing for the crater" the day before the Rancocus left for Philadelphia, having Bigelow on board as pilot and first officer; while Woolston shipped an officer to supply his place.

  46. If all men took to the same woman, or all seamen shipped for the same craft, a troublesome household, and a crowded and onhealthy vessel, would be the upshot on't.

  47. I saw a lot of the crew sitting round a tub of brandy, some of which we had shipped along with the wine as part of our cargo, although it had escaped their observation at first, being stowed low down, under the casks of the sherry.

  48. A cube was cut from a fir tree, near Vancouver, and shipped to the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886, that measured nine feet and eight inches in thickness each way.

  49. Although the currents in each of these "fingers" is rapid, and the water rough, yet we found no difficulty in running through without removing any part of the load, although one of the boats shipped a little water.

  50. Whenever these tentacles passed over the river in a direction against the current, an ugly chop sea was the result, and our boat, stout dory though she was, shipped water in some of these places.

  51. I begged of the Prætor that I might be allowed to bear away the body and have it packed in ice and shipped to his friends near Syrsilla, but he couldn't see it.

  52. Shipped much | Water, Rigged a Pair of Sheers, for a Jury Mizen Mast, and a Yard | athwart them.

  53. A coat of varnish, a fine metal hub--and our propeller is ready to be shipped to join the wings and the fuselage and complete the manufacture of a modern airplane.

  54. Their boat was continually alongside of our vessel, and I perceived that their visits were made to the eight men whom we had shipped at Liverpool, and that they did not appear inclined to be at all intimate with the rest of the crew.

  55. The second mate and other eight men we had shipped at Liverpool.


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