How to Use importation in a Sentence

importation

noun
  • The plaintiffs are asking the court to stop the importation of the drug.
    — Melissa Lee,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Azar, who once held those same concerns, now insists drug importation can be done safely.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
  • That outbreak was traced to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • Azar used to be a skeptic of importation, and was once quoted dismissing it as a gimmick.
    — Author: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
  • The range of the dog tick is spreading, and the importation of dogs carrying the ticks is not helping matters any.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 June 2023
  • India quickly tried to head off similar protests by banning the importation of the book.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Australia has strict policies on the importation of food products in its effort to keep foot and mouth disease out of the country.
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have proposed importation as a tool to cut prices.
    — Tomas J. Philipson, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the case of Lebanon, a country whose lifeblood has been the importation of capital, capital controls would be a killer.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The maximum sentence for cannabis importation in the UK is 14 years in prison.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • President Biden did stop the importation of Russian oil to this country.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The bill would allow shipments valued at $600 or less to move more quickly through the importation and customs process.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But Mississippi does not allow the importation of whitetails to the state.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Opponents called for a ban on the importation of lion trophies to the United States.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That outbreak, the first reported from outside of Africa, was traced back to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 May 2022
  • Colorado began working on the idea of a drug importation program in 2019.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • That spurred the importation of up to 1,500 animals per month for a time, though the country later banned the practice.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • The main cause of the escalating carnage was the importation of Marxism in its most rigidly orthodox form.
    — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Beyond that, the area will need to fund a water importation project from Rockport Reservoir — which requires planning about five years ahead of time.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • There are several kinds, and their production and importation here has been phased out, but many older AC units can still use old stocks to keep them running.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • When the British took the colony nearly four decades later, renaming it for the Duke of York, the importation of slaves began in earnest.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • His best argument is that imposing tariffs is a means of regulating importation.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Slavery was still legal in this country, but the importation of such people was prohibited by law in 1808.
    — Walter E Block, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Campanella said one of the big reasons for pet dumping, besides the skyrocketing costs of pet ownership, is the importation of pets from out-of-state breeders.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • In 1808, the transatlantic importation of African captives was outlawed.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In 1808, the Unites States banned the importation of slaves, effectively putting an end to the transatlantic slave trade.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The plan is only authorized for two years from the date the agency is told about the first drug importation shipment, according to the FDA.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Beaver voted in 2004 to ban alcohol importation.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The bill would prohibit the importation, sale, and offer of sale of pets that are transgenic, meaning they are created by implanting a gene from one species into another.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The administration, though, says the law does give the president the power to regulate importation, and that includes tariffs.
    — Mark Sherman, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2024

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