ship out

phrasal verb

shipped out; shipping out; ships out
: to leave one place and go to another for military duties
The troops will be shipping out next month.

Examples of ship out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The remaining three are expected to ship out by early next year. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024 Advertisement This Van Halen LP was one of hundreds that would be boxed up and shipped out on the first day that Fidelity was open to the public. August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024 Moving the ship out of its current position is a critical step in Key Bridge Response Unified Command’s current efforts to reopen the Patapsco River’s main 50-foot-deep, 700-foot-wide shipping channel, which has been closed since March 26. Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024 His father, Harry Antonopoulos, arrived in the United States in 1912 and shipped out to France with the U.S. Army during World War I. Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024 Galena survived for six days without food or water after she was accidentally shipped out with an Amazon return. Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024 Image Image Baltimore’s main export commodity — Appalachian coal — is also being diverted to Norfolk, where it is being shipped out of Lamberts Point, a site run by Norfolk Southern, the railroad company. Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024 Two pilots who were tasked with guiding the ship out of port were expected to be interviewed by authorities Thursday. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024 Two 5,000-horsepower tugs, which only minutes earlier had helped guide the ship out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore and peeled off, quickly turned back and raced toward the Dali. Joshua Goodman and Richard Lardner, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024

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“Ship out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ship%20out. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.

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