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Six example sentences with consignment, each labelled with its topic.
The whole consignment arrived on one truck, and the warehouse team unloaded four hundred boxes before the shift ended.
Business
A consignment of olive oil reached the restaurant by lorry, forty cases packed in straw and still cool.
Cooking
Customs held the museum's consignment for a week, so the crated sculptures sat in a truck bay across town.
Art
A consignment of wool left the abbey by cart each spring, bound for weavers three days' ride away.
History
The consignment of vaccines traveled by refrigerated truck, and a nurse checked the temperature log before signing.
Medicine
The consignment of new pianos arrived on a flatbed truck, and the movers took a day to carry six upstairs.
Music
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