Imports

Examples

• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He did try to prevent the English from exchanging exports for European gold, while permitting imports in the hope of depleting England of gold. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The imports for the year 1899 were 3,980,250,569 pounds, and the per capita consumption in 1898 was 61. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The word imports what the Latins call _nanunculus_, the Italians _homunceletino_, and the English _mannikin_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• His plan was to levy a direct tax upon the separate states, and collect, at the ports left open to trade, a duty on all imports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Yet first, let me say, said De Bracy, what it imports thee to know. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The statistics for Great Britain for 1896 showed the imports of rubber to that country to be one-third more than the imports of the United States. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The usual one of imports was entirely cut off. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Ora