ship out
(adverb) to depart or cause to depart by ship: we shipped out at dawn; they shipped out the new recruits
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How to use ship out in a sentence
Iran would have to step down from enriching uranium to higher levels and to ship out some of its stockpile.
U.S. Hopes Latest Talks on Iran Nuclear Program Lead to New Diplomacy | Michael Adler | April 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThese tasty turkeys ship out within two days in special polar ice packs.
The deal was to ship out about 80 percent of the some 1,500 kilograms of low enriched uranium Iran has produced.
They had said good-bye to her and God bless you, all of them, but they evidently meant to sing the ship out of port.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette DuncanIt was as though her skipper placed all reliance in our skipper, looking to him to lead his ship out of peril should peril befall.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. Cobb
Frantically Jimmy kicked at his rudder, shifted his ailerons, tried every trick he knew of to get the ship out of the spin.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissThen she went off, protesting it was bad luck to see a ship out of port, thoroughly pleased with having planted a last dart.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonThe attraction turned the gyroscopes and threw the ship out of line, so we no longer know where the sun is.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell
Other Idioms and Phrases with ship out
Leave, especially for a distant place, as in The transport planes carried troops shipping out to the Mediterranean. Although this usage originally meant “depart by ship,” the expression is no longer limited to that mode of travel. [c. 1900]
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