Example sentences for: cargoes

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

  • The huge craft which would once have carried heavy cargoes such as grain and coal now make surprisingly large, comfortable, quirky, and very expensive homes.

  • In the early days, pilots were in competition with each other to reach incoming cargoes first and thus secure the business.

  • St. George’s Harbour and Penno’s Wharf were working at full capacity to unload cargoes that were then transferred onto blockade-runners.

  • The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.

  • From the early 17th century it became the weigh house (the name Waaggebouw means “weigh house”) for cargoes entering or leaving the city down the Geldersekade Canal to its north.


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