Sentence examples for a consignment of horse from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a consignment of horse" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to shipping or delivery of goods, but "horse" should be pluralized to "horses" for clarity.
Example: "The stable received a consignment of horses from the ranch."
Alternatives: "a shipment of horses" or "a delivery of horses."

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In July 2012, residues of the drugs phenylbutazone (an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain and fever in animals) and clenbuterol (a drug that promotes leaner meat but that is banned in the United States and the E.U). were found in a consignment of horse meat imported to Belgium from Canada.

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Freeza Meats, a Northern Ireland meat processor and trader based on the Greenbank Industrial estate in Newry, is found to have a consignment of meat that tests as 80% horse in its cold store.

Twenty-four hours later, a consignment of beef in a County Down cold store tested positive for horse DNA.

A load of horse manure.

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.

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.

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