How to Use importation in a Sentence

importation

noun
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  • But the internet has made policing child pornography importation a much thornier matter.
    — Shawn Musgrave, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Kirschner faces a maximum of 15 years in prison on the unlawful importation count and three years on the impersonation count.
    — Robert Moran, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • Embrace natural gas to reduce our importation of oil and embrace natural gas to reduce our consumption of coal.
    — R. Tyler Priest, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The final list of Chinese goods that will incur hefty tariffs on importation into the U.S. will be revealed tomorrow.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 14 June 2018
  • 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
  • That spurred the importation of up to 1,500 animals per month for a time, though the country later banned the practice.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • 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
  • In the case of Lebanon, a country whose lifeblood has been the importation of capital, capital controls would be a killer.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Fortunately, there were no deaths; the U.S. banned the importation of giant pouched rats.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Azar used to be a skeptic of importation, and was once quoted dismissing it as a gimmick.
    — Author: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
  • India quickly tried to head off similar protests by banning the importation of the book.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the past years, the most common places from which measles importations originated were in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But Mississippi does not allow the importation of whitetails to the state.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Azar, who once held those same concerns, now insists drug importation can be done safely.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • In 1808, the transatlantic importation of African captives was outlawed.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Of those nations, 33 have banned the sale or importation of vapes entirely, though e-cigarette black markets thrive in some of these countries, including India and Turkey.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 July 2024
  • And guns have been central to our politics, including the settlement of native peoples’ lands across the United States, the importation of slavery, a civil war, and the rise of America as a global superpower.
    — Jeremi Suri, TIME, 14 July 2024

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