Sentence examples for a consignment of live from inspiring English sources

In the hold was a consignment of live animals being shipped from Durban to a museum in the States: 400 cockatoos and parrots, 12 snakes, some monkeys, a gorilla, an orangutan and two crocodiles.

On one occasion in December 1804 Nelson ordered Parker to bring a consignment of live bullocks to supply the fleet off Toulon.

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.

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.