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.
  • The victims were told to provide the cash to a courier who would be sent to their home.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The bank would send couriers to her office to pick up cash from her practice.
    — Rob Copeland, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, records show, the Ohio State Highway Patrol stopped the courier and seized the money.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In January, Johnson sent the letter to the White House by courier.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Sanchez, the courier in Chicago, went back to working as a mover but had to take out a loan and still owes back payments on rent.
    — Soo Youn, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • All three apps said couriers receive 100 percent of the tips paid by customers.
    — Joe Fox, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • In December, Uber said its courier service was available in 6,000 cities and towns in the U.S.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The spokesperson said that the change takes into account the location of each courier.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 7 May 2022
  • The woman, too, said the courier and his wife were killed, but that the U.S. forces brought out four of their children, including a 15-day-old boy.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The man comes to realize that the only way out of his current jam is by agreeing to work as a drug courier.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Once the firearms are bought by straw purchasers, they are moved across the southern border through brokers and couriers.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • At the end of the working day, the secretaries and couriers left to go home, taking in their bags scraps of food to share with their families.
    — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
  • The film centers on a legend that Plovers are the couriers of spring and without them summer won’t come to the northern hemisphere.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Malaysian drug courier had an IQ of 69, and had been on death row for more than a decade before his execution on April 27.
    — Wee Ling Soh, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
  • And this month, FedEx became the first global courier brand to invest in a North American fleet.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • And indeed, the following night, at 10 p.m., a courier arrived.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The thieves said her account was compromised by fraud and that pulling cash from her account — and giving it to a courier — would keep it safe.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The courier of cupid’s arrows – the United States Postal Service – still partners with the chamber on the program.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2022
  • His study had patients self-collect swabs, which were picked up by courier every three days.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Surprisingly, none of them were as an Uber driver but rather as a courier for Uber Eats.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Then, United contacted her to tell her the courier with her luggage was trying to reach her.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • His father said Lemekhani was jailed for drug trafficking while doing a part-time job as a courier.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Seems a couple of addicts murdered a courier bearing a ball of dope that was supposed to be split between Wu and Al.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The courier signed up to work for Uber Eats in 2019, using someone else’s Italian identity card.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Once the guns are bought by straw purchasers in the U.S., a network of brokers and couriers transport them across the border and into Mexico.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023

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