Example sentences for: transcontinental

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

  • With the Rocket software, I downloaded Daisy Miller , Our Mutual Friend, and some other fiction in the public domain from the Project Gutenberg Web site before a transcontinental flight.

  • for their luxury transcontinental hostelries.

  • Métis and Cree Indians were devastatingly efficient with their repeater rifles, and the transcontinental railway builders made a deliberate policy of clearing the tracks of migrating buffalo.

  • Boston Center immediately began speculating about other aircraft that might be in danger, leading them to worry about a transcontinental flight-Delta 1989-that in fact was not hijacked.

  • It was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales in 1927, when stations were still built like Greek temples (Corinthian pillars, heroic statues, and ceramic-tiled ceilings); it is one last proud fanfare for the transcontinental railways that founded the country’s industrial prosperity.


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