How to Use transcontinental in a Sentence

transcontinental

adjective

• Records go back to 1875, the year that the transcontinental railroad reached the city.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
• His goal was to clear the path for a transcontinental railway in the 1880s.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2020
• One of them is the idea of space as a transcontinental railroad.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• The goal is to cut current transcontinental trip times in half.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
• 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
• To the end of the line: Vancouver, the last stop on the country’s transcontinental railway.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• But what about a transcontinental flight? British Airways seems to have set the bar at four hours for locking the seats.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• And what better way to achieve that than a transcontinental road trip?
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
• Why did the fox take such an extreme, transcontinental journey in the first place?
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• 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
• When the transcontinental railroad lines started being built in the 1860s, guess who laid the track?
  — Peter Cole, Time, 30 Aug. 2019
• The train is on a tour of the Southwest to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad.
  — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Then, Kobelski said, came the gold thing and the transcontinental railroad thing and the earthquake thing.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• An initial goal for Boom’s proposed airliner is to slash the time for transcontinental trips by more than half.
  — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• Hertzberg and her co-researchers boarded 10 transcontinental flights to find out.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 19 Mar. 2018
• Glauben led the trip more than a dozen times, enduring the rigors of transcontinental travel even into his 90s.
  — Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2022
• Many of these aircraft will be used for transcontinental routes, but will also fly shorter hops.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2022
• This despite the fact that she was raised in a suburb of Sacramento, where the transcontinental railroad started.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2022
• And in 1926, a transcontinental line was completed, meaning someone could take the train anywhere in the country.
  — Katie O'Connell, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2020
• Our winter versus their winter is a fight L.A. has picked and won for 150 years, ever since the railroad went transcontinental.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• In the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln saw a better future and built it with land-grant colleges and the transcontinental railroad.
  — Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2021
• Asian scapegoating in the U.S. goes back at least to the mid-1800s, when Chinese migrant workers first arrived en masse to build the first transcontinental railroad.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
• The Central Pacific railroad broke ground near Front and K streets in 1863 for the western portion of the transcontinental railroad.
  — Ryan Lillis and Tony Bizjak, sacbee.com, 26 June 2017
• 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
• The new book’s title, referring to the nation’s first transcontinental highway, seems to promise a road trip.
  — Time, 29 Sep. 2021
• The rise in journeys from those places has been aided by transcontinental smuggling networks.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 3 July 2024
• The nineteenth century was a time of global empire building and transcontinental wars, of course, and so war and statecraft loom large in this story—but so, too, does everyday life.
  — Patrick Camiller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2015

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024