The superincumbent marl has been removed in several places where regular workings were carried on for years by natives, and shiploadsof it were sent to Manila until the Spanish Government prohibited its free extraction and export.
Shiploads of produce which planters and native middlemen were glad to convert into pesos at panic rates were picked up "dirt cheap," leaving rich profits to the buyers.
Crowds of suspects were brought into Manila, and shiploads of them were sent away in local steamers to the Caroline Islands and Mindanao, whilst every mail-steamer carried batches of them en route for Fernando Po.
Inexhaustible forests of fine timber remain undisturbed, and are left to decay in the ordinary course of nature, whilst shiploads of Oregon pine arrive for public works.
About eight hundred such shiploads as that which Rollo and Mr. George saw in the London Docks arrive in New York alone every year.
It is the same with all the other shiploads that come in.
Very, very far away, light-years distant and light years apart, four shiploads of grain hurtled toward the famine-stricken planet of blueskins.
After all, four shiploadsof grain won't break the famine!
Nobody believed in shiploadsof grain to be had for the taking.
There was no mention of the oddity of behavior of shiploads of surplus grain aloft.
Then came five shiploads of Indian slaves, sent to Spain by Columbus, and along with them came the story that Columbus had forgiven Roldan for his rebellion and given him lands and office in Hayti.
The Indies and Cathay are full of gold and jewels; Columbus will bring you home shiploads of treasures.
Behind them were shiploads of money, and behind the ships.
Shiploads of women who were not nurses; some said they came to dance with the officers, so they would not be ennuyés.
But the government of England was determined we should buy tea, and the merchants sent shiploads of it to our large cities.
Shiploads of provisions were sent by the Red Cross and other societies to relieve the starving thousands.
Turn a few shiploads of Polish Jews upon any of these districts, and they will and must in the struggle for life destroy the whole of this.
What they did was to meet, on arrival at Quebec, the shiploads of settlers sent out by the royal officers.
The king gratified him by sending whole shiploads of them in charge of nuns.
Whole shiploads of settlers were at times gathered and sent to Quebec.
The only result of his efforts was the bringing to England of some shiploads of earth, which had been erroneously supposed to contain the precious metal.
The shrine of Edward the Confessor is raised upon a kind of platform mound, said to have been made of several shiploads of earth brought from the Holy Land, and is surrounded by the tombs of Edward I.
Skalds sang of the deeds done in the south, and shiploads of spoil confirmed their lays.
The first to come after John Smith and the Jamestown people were some shiploads of Catholics.
He thought that our people could not do without tea, so he sent several shiploads across the ocean, expecting them to buy it and pay the tax.
On the other hand, Crozat agreed to send out two shiploads of settlers yearly.
After the religious wars, in 1598, the Marquis de la Roche landed two shiploads of colonists on Sable Island.
He returned in the last chapter and forgave his family and presented them with a noble mansion and several shiploads of gold.
The East India Company now quickly selected agents in the chief seaports of the colonies, and sent shiploads of tea consigned to them for sale.
In the autumn of 1681 three shiploads of colonists were sent over.
We have shiploadsof crush-baled, rusted sheet-metal trimmings!
Ten shiploads like this and we would be better equipped than we believed ourselves in the beginning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shiploads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
