CARRIER in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for CARRIER, such as:

1. 'That's about it,' said the carrier.
2. I will call a baggage carrier to help me.
3. The carrier is armed with nuclear weapons.
4. He became a hod carrier on a building site.
5. Your carrier for this flight is British Airways.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARRIER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
carrier
 n.  one that carries or conveys; messenger
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  We were to go in a carrier's cart, which departed in the morning after breakfast.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
2  I am glad to recollect that when the carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate, and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
3  The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting to whom the packages were directed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
4  I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was only troubled with a cough.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
5  The carrier had a way of keeping his head down, like his horse, and of drooping sleepily forward as he drove, with one of his arms on each of his knees.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
6  We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
7  My former acquaintance, the carrier, was at the door.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
8  We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was quite wet through, when the carrier stopped short.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
9  The carrier looked at me, as if to inquire if she were coming back.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
10  'Then come up,' said the carrier to the lazy horse; who came up accordingly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
11  The carrier, seeing me in this resolution, proposed that my pocket-handkerchief should be spread upon the horse's back to dry.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
12  After we had jogged on for some little time, I asked the carrier if he was going all the way.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
13  'That's about it,' said the carrier.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
14  We turned back, on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
15  Mr. Barkis the carrier was to call for me in the morning at nine o'clock.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Example Sentence:
1  A couple worked on the engine of a troop carrier.
2  A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
3  Your carrier for this flight is British Airways.
4  I will call a baggage carrier to help me.
5  The carrier is armed with nuclear weapons.
6  He became a hod carrier on a building site.
7  He used to be a mail carrier for many years; now he is trying his second job: taxi driver.
8  He said the carrier is ready for the transition and views it as an opportunity to attract discerning subscribers.
9  The cost to inactivate and dispose of a nuclear carrier is estimated at 887 million.
10  It can be delivered at a party convention, as part of a stump speech, from an aircraft carrier or during a deposition.
11  Not all carriers of the disease develop symptoms.
12  When she finds the right neighborhood, she interviews neighbors and mail carriers to verify the addresses.
13  That change should occur within about three years for large carriers, while small companies will be free of rate regulation immediately.
14  The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips to activate access to mobile networks.
15  The carriers in metallic conductors are electrons, and they all carry the same negative charge.