How to Use courier in a Sentence

courier

noun

• A courier just left a package for you on the porch.
• Police recently arrested a drug courier in our neighborhood.
• When a customer orders food, the courier will walk into the restaurant to pick up the order.
  — Gustavo Castillo, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Drivers and couriers often use these services as side jobs due to unreliable payment speeds.
  — Oleg Chanchikov, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Rubalcaba was a translator and courier for the ring, and helped store methamphetamine, his attorney said.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• Broke and facing foreclosure on his business, a 90-year-old horticulturist takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• The unit’s efforts include patrols to detect online trafficking and inspections of markets, airports, ports, pet shops, and courier companies.
  — Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
• But the Obama Administration treated it simply as a crime, arresting a low-level courier and sending him to prison for 25 years.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2019
• The dealers rotated vehicles and phones and sometimes paid individual couriers to take time off to avoid police detection, prosecutors said.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2019
• 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
• In January, Johnson sent the letter to the White House by courier.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• My daughter works in a fast-food chain and my son does courier work, but that is only enough for our meals.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024