How to Use transporter in a Sentence

transporter

noun
  • The sounds of a beam-me-up transporter wafted across the room.
    — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Saltchuk works with air and ground transporters to get goods to rural parts of the state.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2020
  • These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 23 July 2017
  • Will there be tractor beams, transporters and phasers set to stun anytime soon?
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The trucks look far more complex than standard transporters.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The law did not place a limit on the number of transporters or testing labs.
    — al, 15 June 2023
  • That gang alone is making close to $1 million per month, the transporter said.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
  • But hummingbird muscle fibers tend to have a lot of this transporter.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • As the size of the transporter suggests, these are large and complex machines.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2024
  • However, the premise of an upright two-seat transporter makes sense.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Riding atop crawler-transporter 2, the trip took about nine hours with speeds that topped out at less than 1 mph.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Each of the four-axle transporters and launch vehicles carries five rocket tubes.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Soon, the seat from the Andretti transporter was procured, but the next few hours weren't easy.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2021
  • The turtles maintain coral reefs and are nutrient transporters.
    — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The second stage exploded in this huge ball of fire, and then the payload kind of teetered on top of the transporter erector.
    — ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • These were attached to a second normal amino that allows them to be taken up by a transporter protein.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • Of course, Star Trek has always had its share of magical tech and just-in-time transporter saves.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • To deal with the gasoline shortages, some food transporters have been switching to trucks powered by diesel, which has been better supplied.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 6 July 2019
  • Their engines throbbing, C-47 transporters dropped group after group of parachutists.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • The mobile transporter and erector will make the missile difficult to locate.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The wait time for the transporter to arrive was an additional 17 minutes.
    — Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Other ports have the capacity to import cars, but there may not be enough car transporters at those ports to handle the new traffic.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Prosecutors charge that some of these transporters and others then sold the items to wholesalers and direct consumers.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Its transport team in Chula Vista started with just three or four transporters and has now grown to 36.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Ventura works as a vehicle transporter, police sources said.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
  • Studies show that people with ADHD have more dopamine transporters in the brain.
    — Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
  • Roughly 60 feet in length, the vessels barely fit onto the tank transporters seen carrying them.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The 20-year-old right winger is a top-notch puck transporter, capable of driving dynamic entries and rush chances with ease.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • En route to the 1955 Portuguese Grand Prix, the Jaguar transporter broke down.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The researchers also saw that genes for lactic acid transporters — the molecules that move lactic acid out of tissues — were active in the pecten oculi.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026

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