How to Use transcontinental in a Sentence

transcontinental

adjective
  • One of them is the idea of space as a transcontinental railroad.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And what better way to achieve that than a transcontinental road trip?
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The goal is to cut current transcontinental trip times in half.
    — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Why did the fox take such an extreme, transcontinental journey in the first place?
    — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
  • Many of these aircraft will be used for transcontinental routes, but will also fly shorter hops.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2022
  • Airlines are embroiled in a fare war, with the number of seats on transcontinental routes at an all-time high.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 8 May 2019
  • His goal was to clear the path for a transcontinental railway in the 1880s.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Thus far, Avelo does not appear to have plans to link its east and west route networks with transcontinental flights.
    — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • That, in turn, led her to a transcontinental friendship with Dotti.
    — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Records go back to 1875, the year that the transcontinental railroad reached the city.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Hertzberg and her co-researchers boarded 10 transcontinental flights to find out.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The rise in journeys from those places has been aided by transcontinental smuggling networks.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • That could cause fewer big-name players to make the transcontinental flight to the Twin Cities.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And for George, the nation needs the transcontinental railroad.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 23 June 2025
  • The year that mother died, 1869, was the one when the transcontinental railroad linked us to the rest of the world.
    — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Gollan says that some of his subscribers belong to two programs, one for short-haul flights and the other for transcontinental travel.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2022
  • And in the central agency a transcontinental telegraph wire brings the up-to-the-second ‘dope’ to the man at the microphone.
    — OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
  • The new book’s title, referring to the nation’s first transcontinental highway, seems to promise a road trip.
    — Time, 29 Sep. 2021
  • When the transcontinental railroad lines started being built in the 1860s, guess who laid the track?
    — Peter Cole, Time, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Glauben led the trip more than a dozen times, enduring the rigors of transcontinental travel even into his 90s.
    — Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Then, Kobelski said, came the gold thing and the transcontinental railroad thing and the earthquake thing.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Delta, on the other hand, does offer free upgrades on transcontinental routes with lie-flat seats, including flights to Hawaii.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
  • Delta, on the other hand, does offer free upgrades on transcontinental routes with lie-flat seats, including flights to Hawaii.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
  • The United States was connected from coast to coast by the first transcontinental railroad.
    — USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • The steam shovel, used to help fill in the tidal marshes of the Back Bay — and later, to help build the transcontinental railroad.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • This despite the fact that she was raised in a suburb of Sacramento, where the transcontinental railroad started.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Their exploit paved the way for future transcontinental road trips and became part of the mythology of the American open road.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 May 2026
  • Domestic routes, including transcontinental flights and flights to and from Hawaii, were also up, the report said.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • For that, the creation of the transcontinental network to help develop the project is key, and per Durán Rojas will likely remain so.
    — Marina E. Franco, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025
  • On a very different frontier — the transcontinental railroad — Alex Dutton is also in search of a home that will adopt her and her unborn child.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025

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