How to Use transatlantic in a Sentence

transatlantic

adjective

• The peak year for the transatlantic slave trade was 1829.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022
• Which of course fueled the team’s transatlantic dreams.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• This isn’t the first such transatlantic supply chain to take shape.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022
• Sitting for that long on a transatlantic flight is the most scary part for me.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2020
• The route marks the airline's third transatlantic service.
  — Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• The scope of the transatlantic slave trade was staggering.
  — Chris Searles, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• McCrear may well have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 14 Dec. 2020
• Think of wealth that can be traced back to transatlantic slavery.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
• This is not a time for lofty speeches about the need for transatlantic unity.
  — Ulrich Schlie and Thomas Weber, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
• Instead, the current crisis has shown the strength of transatlantic ties.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• The teen's father, who is a transatlantic sailor, was quickly on board with the concept.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
• That includes Cape Coast Castle, which was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
• The British finally outlawed the transatlantic trade in 1807 (the same year the United States did).
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• My heartbeat thrummed in my ears as static danced in the background of the transatlantic call.
  — Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• There are shades of William F. Buckley, a little bit of a transatlantic lilt.
  — Olivia Nuzzi, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
• The transatlantic slave trade killed millions of Africans who were forcibly taken from their homes.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• Because of the transatlantic slave trade, we’ve been stripped of our identity in so many ways.
  — Anna Katherine Clemmons, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• To this list can be added a new issue: patching up the transatlantic alliance.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• Any weakening of the transatlantic alliance would be a huge win for Putin.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• The flight is United’s only transatlantic flight that does not serve a United hub.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Fotis's sister Rena was on the next transatlantic flight out of Greece.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 May 2022
• After all, the pilot of a transatlantic flight does not pump up the polka after wheels up.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 25 July 2021
• Once the proverbial and actual coasts were clear, the Africans were divided among the men who had planned the transatlantic run.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Norwegian's fares could dip as low as $140 for a one-way transatlantic flight.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Jan. 2021
• In real-world terms, this would mean an increase of around 50 minutes to a transatlantic flight.
  — Michele Robson, Fortune Europe, 6 Feb. 2025
• In Europe, the United States is a source of anxiety, the possible weak link in the transatlantic chain.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
• New England colonies played a critical role in the transatlantic slave trade.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2021
• The ship is slated to leave Barcelona on May 21 to make the transatlantic voyage to arrive to Florida on June 4.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 18 May 2021
• That's an erosion of the actual values that bind us together in this transatlantic union that everybody talks about.
  — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025
• Any European approach that is premised on an attempt to preserve a past iteration of the transatlantic relationship is bound to fail.
  — Arancha González Laya, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025