shipping room
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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One morning last week Shipping Clerk Karl Wehn of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. opened the company shipping room in downtown Manhattan and found that someone had been there before him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year he added a fireproof repair shop, 15 hangars, a shipping room, and profits zoomed to $94,213 on $1,768,652 worth of sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shipping room at the Cutter Laboratories is not shipping anything: instead, it is piled high with boxes full of bright red vaccine, being returned for testing from all over the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pebbles the size of houses had rolled to a stop next to one another, and he thought, It’s like a shipping room when all the merchandise has left.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
He came to where a wooden marquee, projecting over the entrance to a shipping room, made a black strip along the feebly lighted pavement.
From The Life of the Party by Preston, James M.
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