How to Use courier in a Sentence

courier

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  • Police recently arrested a drug courier in our neighborhood.
  • The courier was identified as an Uber driver who had been sent to collect the package.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 25 Oct. 2021
  • From there, a courier shuttles the test kits to a lab that same day, with results emailed to families in 24 to 48 hours.
    — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Receive real-time notifications on your smartphone app when a courier is there.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Amazon is now the third largest courier in the US now, beating Fedex’s shipment volumes.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Ardeshir Zahedi acted as a special courier between them.
    — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2021
  • This is a handy feature for anyone looking out for a travel announcement at a railway station or the sound of the courier knocking on the front door.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Pickle offers a same-day courier system, standard shipping or person-to-person delivery when in the same city.
    — Deborah Belgum, WWD, 28 June 2024
  • The samples usually arrive by courier though some local clients like nursing homes may deliver them themselves.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, Amazon launched a delivery service for UK businesses and is now the country’s second-largest courier.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Khan, 41, has admitted to being a courier for al-Qaida and taking part in the planning of several plots there were never carried out.
    — Ben Fox, baltimoresun.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Khan, 41, has admitted to being a courier for Al Qaeda and taking part in the planning of several plots that were never carried out.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Smith wound up as director of courier operations for Uber.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 18 June 2024

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