How to Use import in a Sentence

import

1 of 2 verb

• Oh, and guess from which country the U.S. imports the most oil?
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
• And then of course, to import certain items from Europe and Asia to Africa.
  — Rachel Wood, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• Once the drugs were imported, the law would not allow the state to sell them to other states.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 16 May 2018
• About 90 percent of the coffee beans in the US are imported.
  — al, 22 Apr. 2020
• Vikings razed most of the forests a thousand years ago—so all wood has to be imported.
  — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
• The pier is used to import cars and for delivery of oil to the Valero refinery.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
• Choose from shrimp, fish (whole and fillet), crab, and more, fished straight from the Gulf or imported from around the world.
  — Reviewed Staff and Laura Jazmin Tolliver, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• Put it on a flash drive or in your Dropbox, then sync it over and import it on your new PC.
  — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2020
• Now, farmers can just import hay, but that wasn't an option for the Vikings.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• Meanwhile, the price of many cars imported from Japan went through the roof as the yen strengthened against the dollar.
  — star-telegram, 30 Sep. 2017
• Xi said that China would import more than $22 trillion in goods over the next decade.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• Cuba has been forced to import most of the food the population eats.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• If the wind doesn’t blow, the Midwest can’t import solar power from the Southwest.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 22 Apr. 2021
• Everything in the dough is imported from Italy — right down to the water.
  — Ben Jarrell, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Shows are both imported from afar and grown in the District’s backyard.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The Music app can also import playlists (see tinyurl.com/vxyywya9).
  — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• The tariffs have long been opposed by U.S. companies that import the goods and pay the levies.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 30 May 2021
• Nearly half of African countries import over a third of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
  — Abby Maxman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 May 2022
• Texas can’t import that many electrons even in a crisis, thanks to decades of isolation from the two huge grids that span the rest of the country.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2021
• Skylines that are more than 25 years old can be imported from Japan.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The home comes with a new steam shower and handmade glass tiles imported from England.
  — Catherine Reagor, azcentral, 14 May 2018
• The government has been importing water to make up for the shortage.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• Twice a year, Holmes would travel to Europe and bring back silks, laces and other imported goods.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Critics say the crackdown on refugees is pointless when Japan needs to import labor.
  — Joseph Coleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• The cost of any such items imported from other countries would not be deductible.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 May 2017
• Consumers would notice, too, since most of the fish on British dinner plates is imported.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• Pakistan may have to import about a million tons of wheat because of the destruction of farmland.
  — Edith M. Lederer, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
• These days, most of the seafood consumed in the United States is imported, and the government estimates that more than half of it is farmed.
  — Karen Zraick Karsten Moran, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Haiti doesn’t manufacture firearms, and the U.N. prohibits importing them, but that’s no problem for the criminals.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• Rohan Bicknell, an Australian who imports and exports fruits and vegetables, has a front-row seat to the feijoa mania.
  — Kate Evans Tatsiana Chypsanava, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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import

2 of 2 noun

• They sell luxury imports from around the world.
• This is an issue of little import to voters.
• This car is an import from Italy.
• The growth of exports and imports slowed across all regions in the first half of 2019.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• More than a fifth of U.S. imports came from China in 2018.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
• Back then, the coronavirus seemed to be of little import here in the U.S.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• There have been calls for the United States to ban the import of Russian oil.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
• Still, her slave characters walk the Earth with the import of gods.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
• Thailand and Malaysia saw an uptick in imports after the ban.
  — Sean McNaughton and Kelsey Nowakowski, National Geographic, 22 June 2019
• That would offset some of the effects of the tax since a dollar would buy more imports.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2017
• Which country is the source of an import is not the only factor.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• This British import traces stardom through the lens of trauma.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
• Union naval blockades cut off coffee imports from to the city.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2020
• Otherwise there wouldn’t have been the demand for imports in the first place.
  — Julie Heath, Cincinnati.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Earlier in the week Biden banned the import of Russian oil.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 Mar. 2022
• The son is the president of Huawei subsidiaries that own hotels and import food and wine.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• For the United States, on the contrary, pass-through into import prices should be low.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 30 Sep. 2020
• This Aussie import has been selling out concert venues all over the world for 16 years.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• So if space and convenience are of big import, this might not be your first choice.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 25 Sep. 2020
• That is of little import to the Buckeyes, whose bigger goals are well in reach.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2020
• In so doing, this very Russian import would grab hold on this side of the Atlantic.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Many of the books are autographed first editions and imports.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
• State law prohibits the import or sale of invasive plants in any form.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
• Bans on the import of pigs and pork are another tactic.
  — The Economist, 19 June 2019
• The import of gold and silver has gone up since the country went into lockdown.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2020
• That boosted the cost of imports and sped up inflation.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
• Both sets of import taxes are part of a dispute that began 16 years ago.
  — Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• The difference between exports and imports is the trade deficit.
  — Joel Naroff, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• Even though China is expected to allow imports again this month, that will not mop up the glut, as demand there has fallen much more rapidly than elsewhere.
  — Reuters, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• What if Trump — whose love for tariffs is rooted in witnessing Japan’s rise in the 1980s — imposes higher tax rates on Japanese imports?
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024