noun
Etymology
Origin of shipload
Example Sentences
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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
The shipload of equipment is just the latest frustration Russians are having with a leader they claim is out of touch.
From Fox News ● Apr. 22, 2020
A shipload of gravel is causing controversy in French Polynesia amid campaigners' concerns that it could be contaminated with plutonium from nuclear tests.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2016
On November 19 of that year, a ship carrying 500 Maori armed with guns, clubs, and axes arrived, followed on December 5 by a shipload of 400 more Maori.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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