shipped

past tense of ship

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shipped The set was shipped to Steiner for Season 3 and rebuilt there. — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 The Suns shipped All-Star forward Kevin Durant off to the Houston Rockets and still managed to make the playoffs last season (where they were swept in the first round by the Oklahoma City Thunder). — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 The prescription should be filled through a licensed pharmacy and may be shipped directly to the patient. — Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026 Goods shipped from a Canadian warehouse, for example, are not necessarily Canadian-origin. — Shannon Hynds, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 That quickly comes in handy when Clancy, a sadistic guard, tells the inmates they’re being shipped to the infamous sanitarium Saint Mabyn’s. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Enabling that mode augments the on-device scam detection first shipped in March 2025, adding cloud analysis run in Google’s Private AI Compute environment. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 In March 2024 Biden therefore announced that the United States would build a special offshore pier on the coast of Gaza to receive international aid, which would be shipped from Cyprus after being inspected by Israel. — Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026 Well, traditionally, maintenance kits of this nature tend to be shipped to site. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipped
sent
Verb
  • Instead of flying the drone remotely with individual controls, the F-22 pilot sent high-level tactical instructions that the drone’s onboard autonomy software interpreted and executed.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • On a sunny Oregon fall morning, parents dressed their children up and sent them to Silver Rail Elementary School for picture day.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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“Shipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipped. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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