Example sentences for: transcontinental

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

  • for their luxury transcontinental hostelries.

  • Only the promise of a transcontinental railway brought Nova Scotia immediately into the Confederation, with British Columbia joining in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 1873.

  • FAA air traffic control tapes indicate that at 9:19 the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Herndon ordered controllers to send a cockpit warning to Delta 1989 because, like American 11 and United 175, it was a transcontinental flight departing Boston's Logan Airport.

  • Like Shehhi, Jarrah, Atta, and Waleed al Shehri before them, Hazmi and Hanjour each flew in first class on the same type of aircraft they would hijack on 9/11 (a Boeing 757), and on transcontinental flights that connected to Las Vegas.

  • One of the best examples was the completion of America's transcontinental railroads in the nineteenth century.


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