How to Use common carrier in a Sentence

common carrier

noun
  • Glycerin is one of the common carriers used in e-juice cartridges.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Bats and skunks are the most common carriers of the disease in Michigan.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2018
  • Raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in Maine.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • Skunks and bats are common carriers in Michigan.
    — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Today, raccoons, bats, skunks, and foxes are the most common carriers.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Studies have also found that goldfish are a common carrier of parasites that affect the gills.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The judges also ruled that mobile service could not be regulated as a common carrier.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Oysters and other shellfish are the most common carriers of Vibrio.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And even the Texas and Florida laws stop short of that by resorting to the common carrier framework.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • Alcohol, the most common carrier liquid, maintains the structure of a fragrance.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The winery is also offering $10 flat-rate shipping via a common carrier for orders of six or more bottles.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Perhaps more surprising, major railroads are subject to common carrier laws.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Once Google is declared a common carrier, the average web user's experience of search would, for the most part, remain the same.
    — Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • But after today, maybe AT&T won't mind being a common carrier after all.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The terms of release in the federal case ban her from consuming any alcohol and was barred from interstate travel via common carrier, with one exception.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The problem with this argument is that social media platforms are not and never have been common carriers that simply transmit everything that is posted.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The most common carrier is a rodent of the Mastomys species, 4 to 7 inches long and with 24 mammary glands.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Historically, dogs have been a common carrier, as anyone who’s watched the Disney classic Old Yeller can tell you.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Raccoons are common carriers of rabies, which can be spread to humans if a rabid animal's saliva or neural tissue comes into contact with a bite, scratch, cut or gets in the mouth, nose or eyes.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • In fact, Section 230 already does recognize social-media platforms as a kind of common carrier.
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The conservatives wanted the common carrier arguments to be addressed, not sidelined the way the majority opinion did.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • Nowhere does Congress clearly grant the Commission the discretion to classify broadband providers as common carriers.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The bill would also prohibit the FCC from imposing any type of common carrier regulations on broadband providers.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The court affirmed the FCC's authority to decide whether broadband should be considered a common carrier service.
    — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
  • According to McKinsey, common carrier refers to any pipeline that offers transportation services to any third party under a standard set of terms.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Owen Turner of Boston is facing charges of gross negligence of a person in control of a train, and gross negligence of a person having care of a common carrier, according to the records.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • However, if the airline attributes the interruption to a common carrier issue, your policy may reimburse you for non-refundable expenses, like hotel rooms or tours.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
  • However, raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in the state, and bringing the wild animal into a pet store constituted an unnecessary risk to public health, Latti said.
    — CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • In New Mexico, where Arakawa and Hackman lived, the most common carrier of hantavirus is the deer mouse, a small creature with a white underbelly, large eyes and oversize ears.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 May 2026
  • Home and mobile Internet providers were classified as common carriers by the FCC starting in 2015.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018

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