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How to use shipload in a sentence

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The Jakarta Police confiscated a shipload of undocumented logs that arrived here from Central Kalimantan, an officer revealed on Friday.
A shipload of tourists watched from the armchair comfort of a cruise ship at anchor off Russia's Antarctic base of Mirny.
In 1507, a year after seizing power, Afonso sent to Portugal a shipload of copper and ivory.
In Norfolk, Virginia, a whole shipload of watching sailors let out a gang-whoop of recognition.
A shipload of guns was sent to Yemen and operatives dispatched to help tribesmen fight US troops in Somalia.
Beginning in 1882 he brought them by the shipload from Hong Kong, ten shiploads in fact, for a total of about six thousand.
The rulers of the British Empire fell for the sweet talk and sent the first shipload of British convicts to the Cape.
A ship called the Jolly George was awaiting a shipload of arms destined for Polish troops in London's East End docks in May.
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.
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.
They had been hidden in a conventional shipload of peat moss coming from Lithuania and Latvia.
You will just end up with a shipload of rotten meat which is completely unusable.
Having completed construction phase one, the first shipload of crude oil is expected for the autumn of this year.
In the spring of 1776 the first shipload of Loyalists left the Thirteen Colonies for Nova Scotia.
The iron ore terminal will receive, stockpile, reclaim and shipload high-grade DSO and concentrate products for export.
Marble was delivered there by the shipload, cut, and redistributed.
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.
The French soldier Antoine d'Arces arrived at Dumbarton Castle in November with a shipload of armaments which were transported to Stirling.
In 1615 a shipload of settlers from Wales founded Trepassey, and by 1712 there were nearly 3,000 English settlers along the harbours of the Avalon Peninsula.
He will do it using a shipload of imported Chinese arms.
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I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters.
The only novelty was that it was the first shipload of Africans brought to English-America.
To find a lump of gold, after he had brought to England a shipload of yellow sand!
The sale of a shipload of these goods in that country is as rapid as it is lucrative.
It must undoubtedly have cost at least a shipload of doubloons to build the castle.
A shipload can be bought of the natives for three cents apiece.
One could buy a shipload of their goods or a few pesetas' worth.
A shipload of good wives were the best cargo England could send us.
The whole shipload of them is heading on collision course for the sun.
Fertilizers are unloaded from railcars onto shipping vessels, with each shipload being stored in specialised containers.
Bristol doth every year send away a shipload at least of such.
I sailed this summer from Iceland with forty men and a shipload of goods.
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