Example sentences for: cargo

How can you use “cargo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This was emphasized in 1904 when a ship wrecked off Sanur was plundered of its cargo.

  • All are packed in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia for a scheduled Thursday launch.

  • Most of the planters left the islands and depression returned, only partly relieved by “wrecking,” the freelance business of salvaging cargo from the ships forever running aground in the dangerous Bahamian waters.

  • On Thursday, the United States told the Coast Guard to bar Japanese cargo ships from U.S. ports and to detain those already here.

  • has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.


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