How to Use transect in a Sentence

transect

noun
  • As the unit’s beeps and boops mixed with bird song, the pair walked a transect through the marsh, battling sharp, stiff grasses.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
  • For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
  • The transect where Hall snorkeled had extended to 1,100 meters.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Nobody’s actually done a transect of one of these walls.
    — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The volunteers who walked the transects were not firefighters, and were not carrying packs (in an emergency, firefighters are taught to drop their packs).
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The protocol has observers on each side of the plane recording waterfowl data, with the observer on the north side also recording the number and type of wetland basins within a transect.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
  • There’s a 70-mile stretch of water north of Santa Rosalía that’s never had a proper biological transect.
    — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Unbeknownst to most state residents, a pilot flew a Cessna on east-west transects over Wisconsin earlier this year.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
  • Tie a wet kerchief over your nose and mouth, hurry to finish your transect, and paddle back through the haze as thousands of acres of pine barrens burn upwind.
    — Amy Davis, AZCentral.com, 13 Jan. 2025

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