Sentence examples for like a shipment from inspiring English sources

Before we were allowed on the ride, the guys in charge sent a few terrified farmers on test runs like a shipment of human flour sacks.

This was the noisiest World Series to date, with the California fans endlessly whacking those scarlet or black-and-orange plastic ThunderStix together (the sound is like a shipment of tin pails falling downstairs), and the teams knocking out a hundred and forty-two hits and a record twenty-one homers and eighty-five runs.

Then there were more bulk deliveries, important ones, like a shipment of archaeological finds from the site of Dura-Europos, a city that flourished up to the third century in what is now Syria and that yielded a cross-cultural wealth of religious material, including sculptures of Roman gods, Jewish paintings and some of the earliest known depictions of Jesus.

This was the noisiest World Series to date, with the California fans endlessly whacking those scarlet or black-and-orange plastic ThunderStix together (the sound is like a shipment of tin pails falling downstairs), and the teams knocking out a hundred and forty-two hits and a record twenty-one homers and eighty-five runs..

Also, I like to track a shipment's physical progress from the warehouse to its destination.

The contracts' payments are usually calculated in relation to the value of some underlying asset, like a bond or a shipment of oil.

A month ago, M.K. (Aramis Knight), now a colt in training to become a clipper like Sunny, was among a shipment of 28 cogs, slaves, to be delivered to The River King.

When it came time to vote, the requisite red flags and posters went up in my neighborhood, and the residents trotted into the appointed polling place, voted for the prescribed candidates, and hoped for some reward like a rare shipment of mandarin oranges.

Many cases, like last year's disappearance of a shipment of cobalt-60 in Mexico, or this year's 100 pounds of cesium-137, which fell off the back of a truck in Kazakhstan, aren't particularly worrying as dirty bomb components.

A shipment, though fully shaped like bones, arrived in due course.

I am the bra for you and for the record, I see you less as a shipment of damaged goods and more like someone whose shipment shouldn't be traveling third class on alpacas over the Andes.