ship out

verb

shipped out; shipping out; ships out

: to leave one place and go to another for military duties

The troops will be shipping out next month.

Examples of ship out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The intrepid Weather Channel star is renowned for showing up just when everyone else is shipping out. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

For decades, the debate around Africa’s natural resources has largely been over who gets the value from what the continent digs up and ships out. — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026

The Iran war is disrupting Middle Eastern refineries from shipping out their products, while Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out roughly 40% of Russia’s refining capacity. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

With steel and aluminum in limited supply in World War II, Allied forces gave serious consideration to a proposal made by English inventor Geoffrey Pyke to build ships out of little more than frozen water. — Mike McRae 16, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for ship out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout