Example sentences for: trans-

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

  • 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.

  • Leave the Trans-Canada 11/2 km (1 mile) east of Revelstoke town to drive the winding Summit Road up Mount Revelstoke, 2,120 m (6,370 ft), the only mountain in Canada that you can “climb” by car.

  • Other officers began performing rescue and evacuation operations on the ground floors and in the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) station below the WTC complex.

  • 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.

  • At the corner of Dallas Road and Douglas Street is Kilometer 0 of the 7,800-km (4,680-mile) Trans-Canada Highway (ending up, with the aid of a ferry or two, in St. John’s, Newfoundland).


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