How to Use courier in a Sentence

courier

noun
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  • A courier just left a package for you on the porch.
  • Police recently arrested a drug courier in our neighborhood.
  • Wait, the courier and the call girl are stripping down!
    — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
  • Critics of the app say a large number of couriers have basically become full-time workers.
    — Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • Net-Tech currently uses courier services to rush laptops to customers who need them right away.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 14 June 2019
  • Cash couriers were hired through advertisements in group chats, with people putting in bids for each of the handovers, Sasikumar says.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Lightweight electric drones are likely to be less expensive than car or motorcycle couriers, and faster.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • That woman went into labor and had her daughter on the weekend, when the donation company’s courier service didn’t work.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al.com, 14 June 2019
  • In July one caught fire at a courier hub in Germany and another ignited in a warehouse in England.
    — Jill Lawless The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The flying groceries go to an army of waiting couriers, who deliver online orders free within a 3km radius within 30 minutes.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2019
  • Extreme weather events pose significant challenges for gig couriers, impacting their performance, income and health.
    — Susan F. Lu, run Ge, wenzheng Mao, Harvard Business Review, 27 Nov. 2024
  • What’s more, food couriers usually lack formal worker status, leaving them without essential labor protections.
    — Susan F. Lu, run Ge, wenzheng Mao, Harvard Business Review, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The office sent a courier to her house to pick up the check.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The victims were told to provide the cash to a courier who would be sent to their home.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But the revamp is now spurring the courier’s biggest share gains since 1998.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
  • So, of course, the critical moment, the turning point for the whole story is the lead to the courier.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • About this time, Sharon says, Holmes began working as a courier for the Mob.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The bank would send couriers to her office to pick up cash from her practice.
    — Rob Copeland, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • According to Advent, the courier tripled in size over the past five years.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 July 2024
  • That means the lab must send samples via courier to outside labs.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2020
  • One courier in Seoul, Kim Dong-hee, returned home at 2 a.m. on Oct. 7.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Around noon Wednesday, the woman gave the money to the courier, who then left the area, the sheriff’s office said.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Patrick Sandoval, courier of the pregame lineup card, picked up his sixth-straight win.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • Dozens of couriers throughout the U.S. would then collect the drug profits and use the dirty money to buy scrap and fine gold.
    — Beth Warren, courier-journal.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 June 2023
  • Thrasher said a courier comes twice a day and takes the swab samples to a lab in Birmingham.
    — al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Todorova paid drivers $37.50 an hour, the courier told the DEA.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • And this detainee said that Abu Ahmed was a courier for bin Laden, was somebody who was close to bin Laden.
    — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Instead, records show, the Ohio State Highway Patrol stopped the courier and seized the money.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Williams said her agent received the postcard, via courier, from Trump.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024

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