How to Use import in a Sentence

import

1 of 2 verb
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  • 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
  • Many selections are imported from cities across the state of Michigan.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
  • By the way, here's a shot of Kate from the Roxy campaign, looking strong all over: This content is imported from instagram.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
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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
  • If it's discovered that's the case, there could be retroactive penalties charged for the import of the panels.
    — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • The App Store fee acts something like a digital import tax.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021

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