How To Use Shipload In A Sentence
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One shipload is equivalent to 40 to 50 lorry loads.
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In Norfolk, Virginia, a whole shipload of watching sailors let out a gang-whoop of recognition.
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The government even refused entry to a shipload of desperate Jews, who instead sailed back to Europe on a voyage of the damned.
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Meg had tell'd him Sandy was a tattie merchant, an 'he'd been thinkin' Sandy had a big wey o 'doin', an 'sell'd tatties in shiploads an' so on.
My Man Sandy
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Marble was delivered there by the shipload, cut, and redistributed.
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In 1507, a year after seizing power, Afonso sent to Portugal a shipload of copper and ivory.
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Benares was famous for these things -- or did they simply come by the shipload from Birmingham to be sold here?
TANK OF SERPENTS
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When shiploads of contraband disembarked at Mississippi River towns, they were often outnumbered by the employers who anxiously awaited them.
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The rulers of the British Empire fell for the sweet talk and sent the first shipload of British convicts to the Cape.
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While sippers and connoisseurs of every stripe debate whether Australia is the new California or Michigan, shiploads of the stuff is selling, especially in the States.
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Some others were so enthusiastic about sending a shipload of rice to Cuba that they seemed to forget about the famine deaths that were being reported from different parts of India.
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As soon as she left the room, her father launched into some discussion of a shipload of trading goods that was overdue.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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However, the Russian fur trade in this area was threatened by Yankee traders, who not only collected furs, but brought shiploads of rum and guns for the local Indians.
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The Jakarta Police confiscated a shipload of undocumented logs that arrived here from Central Kalimantan, an officer revealed on Friday.
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A shipload of tourists watched from the armchair comfort of a cruise ship at anchor off Russia's Antarctic base of Mirny.
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Along with wine, a variety of amphorae demonstrate that olive oil, fish-sauce, and other exotic foodstuffs were imported by the shipload from the Mediterranean.
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Easter Saturday was the day when the fatal hour arrived to strike, and the Germans sent their shiploads to Ireland; but the old British Navy had their tip in time, and they arrested the arms and sent the ships to the bottom of. the sea, and the German submarine ran to Ireland with Sir Roger Casement, who was supposed to be the Ambassador at the Court of Berlin-we have a wonderful lot of ambassadors, but somehow they are living out of Ireland, a whole lot of them (laughter) and they are remaining away for Ireland's good, and I trust that what will happen to poor de Valera is what happened to some men like Casement.
The Irish Problem
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As she earns shiploads more than I did, when redundancy reared its ugly head I volunteered to stay at home and be a househusband.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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As the ungainly old tub surged slowly out of the little harbour, her worn-out and generally used-up appearance would have given a Board of Trade Inspector the nightmare; the piratical looks of her crowd were enough to frighten a shipload of passengers into fits; but to us who had seen their performances in all weathers, and under all circumstances, accidental externals had no weight in biassing our high opinion of them all.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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However, now that Caribbean planters were no longer able to replace slaves worked to death by buying shiploads of new ones, they eased working conditions and improved the slaves' diet.
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A shipload of guns was sent to Yemen and operatives dispatched to help tribesmen fight US troops in Somalia.
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Beginning in 1882 he brought them by the shipload from Hong Kong, ten shiploads in fact, for a total of about six thousand.
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The immigrants worked as free people until 1629 when a Portuguese vessel arrived with the first shipload of blacks captured off the west coast of Africa.
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Shiploads of thuja are what my body wants to say to your body.
Chris Abani on the stories of Africa
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They gave him a bank cheque drawn on the Standard Bank of Africa for $25 million to supply ten shiploads of rice.
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As logs are lashed, he lists the many benefits to Astoria of bringing in a log exporter, including dozens of $40-an-hour stevedore jobs filled with every shipload, and some $100,000 in wharfing fees each month.
Log Exports Hammer Lumber Mills
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New Zealand has been spared, and now radiation has diminished enough to allow this shipload of scientists of all kinds to explore the remains of civilization.
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They lived and worked as ‘free persons’ even when a Portuguese vessel arrived with the first shipload of blacks enslaved in 1629.
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Several shiploads of grain arrived in the harbor that day.
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A ship called the Jolly George was awaiting a shipload of arms destined for Polish troops in London's East End docks in May.
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Two shiploads of cranes were exported from the port to Barcelona in January.