How to Use importation in a Sentence

importation

noun

• The range of the dog tick is spreading, and the importation of dogs carrying the ticks is not helping matters any.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 June 2023
• That outbreak was traced to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• In 1808, the Unites States banned the importation of slaves, effectively putting an end to the transatlantic slave trade.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• When the British took the colony nearly four decades later, renaming it for the Duke of York, the importation of slaves began in earnest.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• The Irish served as a source of cheap labor following the U.S.’s 1808 ban on the importation of enslaved people.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• That outbreak, the first reported from outside of Africa, was traced back to the importation of small mammals from Ghana.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 May 2022
• The plan is only authorized for two years from the date the agency is told about the first drug importation shipment, according to the FDA.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the United States, the importation of people for the purpose of enslavement had been outlawed since 1808.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• Opponents called for a ban on the importation of lion trophies to the United States.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• Australia has strict policies on the importation of food products in its effort to keep foot and mouth disease out of the country.
  — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2022
• Fortunately, there were no deaths; the U.S. banned the importation of giant pouched rats.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• India quickly tried to head off similar protests by banning the importation of the book.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
• For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have proposed importation as a tool to cut prices.
  — Tomas J. Philipson, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
• Companies from around the globe send their crude oil to American refineries, which counts as crude-oil importation to the U.S.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Beyond that, the area will need to fund a water importation project from Rockport Reservoir — which requires planning about five years ahead of time.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2021
• President Biden did stop the importation of Russian oil to this country.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• In practice, the requirement would prevent the ITC from barring the importation of patent-infringing goods except in the rarest of cases.
  — Andrei Iancu, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Congress had banned the importation of enslaved persons in 1808.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• There are several kinds, and their production and importation here has been phased out, but many older AC units can still use old stocks to keep them running.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Sanders didn't say whether the Canadian importation plan would make a significant dent in prescription drug prices in the U.S.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• This did little to stop importation, and simply made hot spots more expensive.
  — Jacob Russell, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• Or the New York City detections could be a new importation or importations of vaccine viruses from other parts of the world.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• By May, the government had resumed importation of all small mammals other than hamsters given the risks.
  — Shirley Zhao, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
• The ban stayed in place until 2019, when the government allowed the importation of GM cotton engineered to be resistant against a pest called the cotton bollworm.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• Israel has placed heavy restrictions on the freedom of civilian movement and controls the importation of basic goods into the narrow coastal strip.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• California — the nation’s largest market for soccer equipment — is the only state to ban the importation and sale of kangaroo parts.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
• Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, made the decision to ban the importation of koala skins almost a century ago.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• The passage of the Wild Bird Conservation Act in 1992 ended the large-scale importation of wild parrots, which left domestic breeders as the only major source.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
• This set up a conflict with the Mexican government, which banned the importation of enslaved people in 1824, on the principle of liberty for all.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• The driver of a Mercedes who allegedly pulled up next to the drone was arrested on drug importation conspiracy charges.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024