How to Use shipload in a Sentence

shipload

noun
  • Shiploads of settlers came to the New World.
  • Planters simply replaced the dead with fresh shiploads of Africans.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Low-tech goods that China sells by the shipload would be mostly untouched.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Winning’s vessels ferry about 200 shiploads a year to Chinese ports.
    — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The British Royal Navy did something where an entire shipload of [people] sang each part of the song.
    — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • About 15 years ago, a shipload of scud missiles from North Korea heading to Yemen was captured.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • All that’s really going on here is a shipload of jump scares, which are adequately handled if never remotely inspired.
    — Dennis Harvey, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The story goes that a German submarine sank a vessel carrying an uninsured shipload of his goods, putting an end to that trading venture.
    — Clara Hernanz Lizarraga, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
  • In America the prices of many goods would jump and those of others, like the soyabeans exported to China by the shipload, would plummet.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • In addition to the shiploads of current-release Dom that are launched about a decade after their birth, many more bottles are held back in the cellar, resting on their lees.
    — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
  • India sent two shiploads of goods and some medical staff, and the United States and Pakistan also promised relief supplies.
    — Bharatha Mallawarachi, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • When North Korean coal exports were forbidden, some shiploads were channeled through Russia to hide their origin.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
  • In between, Lyons said, the tariffs were adding $4 million to $6 million to the cost of every shipload arriving from Mexico.
    — al, 19 Sep. 2019
  • What's certain is that the chairman, then 49, escaped in one of the last lifeboats, leaving behind a shipload of passengers, his butler, his secretary and his reputation.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The recycling industry has been reeling after China and other overseas markets, which used to buy America’s plastic trash by the shipload, halted shipments in recent years.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Charles Edward Trevelyan, a top treasury official, curtailed the government’s subsidized food distribution program, even at one point rejecting a shipload of corn.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • For British and American traders, however, the profits to be made by smuggling far outweighed any moral considerations; a single shipload of opium was worth tens of millions of dollars in today’s currency.
    — Randall Fuller, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • Advertisement Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.
    — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Adding insult to injury, Argentina has suspended its export tax and was rewarded with Chinese orders last month for 20 shiploads of soybeans, deepening a market downturn for American growers.
    — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025

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