Sentence example with the word 'shipload'

shipload

Definition n. the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

Last update: September 10, 2015


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The ship was set on sail with the heavy shipload of grain.   [Please select]

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Lord Glenelg, the colonial minister, had the support of the missionaries in withstanding Wakefield's New Zealand Company, which at length resolved in desperation to send an agent to buy land wholesale in New Zealand and despatch a shipload of settlers thither without official permission.   [Please select]

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The merchants all over the country renewed their old agreements not to import British goods, and many a shipload was sent back to England.   [Please select]

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The press would chatter and make odd ambiguous sounds like a shipload of monkeys in a storm.   [Please select]

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The only novelty was that it was the first shipload of Africans brought to English-America.   [Please select]

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Trustees were appointed, the support of influential men secured, and on November 16, 1732, the first shipload of emigrants left England.   [Please select]

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In 1619 slavery was introduced; a shipload of young women arrived; and a representative government was established.   [Please select]

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Shipload after shipload of otter and beaver skins were sent across the ocean and still there were otters and beavers without number.   [Please select]

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