Example sentences for: trans-

How can you use “trans-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Trans-Canada continues through the jagged mountains of Glacier National Park, which counts over 400 glaciers within its boundaries.

  • Six "senior employees" of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System wrote to Sir John Browne, the chief executive of BP Amoco, and to three U.S. congressmen, warning of an imminent threat to human life and the Alaskan environment from irresponsible oil operations there, the paper said in its main front-page story.

  • King George III and his ministers were actually just blundering their way through the tricky business of running a trans-Atlantic empire, but suspicious Americans viewed each restriction of their rights--the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and so on--as part of a scheme to reduce them to slavery.

  • Before turning east on the Trans-Canada Highway to follow the Thompson, take a look (just north of town on Highway 12) at the dramatic effect of the confluence mixing the lime of the tributary with the clearer mountain waters of the Fraser.

  • The New York Times emphasizes the 10-year-old plane's clean bill of health and calls the Boeing 767 "a workhorse of trans-Atlantic travel."


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