Sentence examples for a consignment of eggs from inspiring English sources

Often they make several trips in a day: a quick dash to a nearby farm to pick up freshly harvested vegetables; a longer journey to inspect a pig or collect a consignment of eggs; an evening excursion for freshwater fish, shrimp, and eels.

A consignment of artefacts was impounded in Newark, New Jersey.

The box was part of a consignment of Korean Air parts being shipped by Condor Air Transport of Stratford.

They're to steal a consignment of gold being carried by a Swiss cargo plane.

A consignment of canned mint juleps to the Mikado might even do the whole trick.

On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria.

Emergency EU regulations banned the sale - in Belgium and for export - of poultry and egg products, beef, pork and all dairy products from farms thought to have been contaminated by a consignment of fat produced at a plant near Ghent in January.

It came in on a consignment of logs from the US, where it had been killing elms since the 1930s.

The same men were baffled, however, by a consignment of ploughshares, kindly donated by a western aid agency.

In fighting trim, the plane could carry 28 fully-equipped paratroopers or a consignment of jeeps, trailers or anti-tank guns.

A consignment of iron ore from Brazil takes twice as long to reach Shanghai as from Australia.