Example sentences for: carry

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

  • Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.

  • (Time Warner had refused to carry Murdoch's Fox News Channel on its cable system in New York City, prompting a spectacular squabble between Murdoch and Ted Turner.)

  • Time inventories the troops, time, casualties, and money necessary to carry out four different plans, from limited force (10,000 troops, 2-3 weeks of prep time, 500 dead, and $5 billion) to full-on occupation of Yugoslavia (200,000 troops, 4-6 months of prep time, 5,000-10,000 dead, and $25 billion).

  • The combination of different sizes, colors, styles, fabrics, price lines, and consumer groups means that a retailer must carry an enormous range of different products.

  • I carry a little card around in my pocket.


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