How to Use transoceanic in a Sentence

transoceanic

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• On its transoceanic voyages, the megalodon would have played a key role in distributing nutrients across the oceans, the study notes.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2022
• The other thing that killed the Concorde was the 1973 ban on supersonic travel over the United States, which limited the planes to transoceanic travel.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
• While transoceanic sailors could determine latitude from the altitude of the sun at noon with the aid of a table giving the sun's declination for the day.
  — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Scientists believe the creatures arrived via ballast dumps from transoceanic freighters making their way to Great Lakes ports.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Mobile phones arrived, but the early ones functioned only at home; travelers hacked the problem by swapping out SIM cards as their transoceanic flights touched down.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
• And while current prototypes won’t be making transoceanic flights anytime soon, their proofs-of-concept could guide better, more efficient, and larger craft in the years to come.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• Regarding range, the yard says Senses 62 is capable of transoceanic crossings.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2022
• This tension between connecting to Europe or to the transoceanic world has been a factor in British government and foreign policy for centuries.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 9 Sep. 2019
• Containers are the large metal boxes that shippers fill with all manner of goods and stack atop cargo vessels for convenient, transoceanic transport.
  — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
• The main difference is that this plane has to work for days on end – the cross-continental trip taken by Solar Impulse 1 only flew for up to about 24 hours at a time, whereas Solar Impulse 2 will need to make transoceanic flights.
  — Helen Fields, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
• Perhaps Virgin Galactic rockets would help passenger planes make transoceanic flights in record time.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• During the 1960s, in the realm of shipping of transoceanic freight, SRI innovators developed container shipping.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 6 June 2017
• Like Concorde, Boom's aircraft will only fly at supersonic speeds on transoceanic routes, while cruising at subsonic speeds over land.
  — Howard Slutsken, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2019
• The only way to know for sure is to collect and sequence lots more hornets from across their native ranges, to get a better picture of their family tree and which branches are potential launching pads for a transoceanic journey.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020
• Revolution is first and foremost a transoceanic cruiser.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• But until laws that prohibit overland supersonic flight are changed, Boom will be limited to transoceanic routes.
  — Fortune, 15 June 2021
• Sleek exterior aside, Eleuthera is designed for transoceanic cruising.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 July 2023
• As the world pulls up its drawbridges during a time of pandemic and questions the merits of globalization, Malacca is a reminder that such transoceanic exchange has a long history of bringing both promise and peril.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• And the land border means China can transport cars to Russia by rail, an important factor because China lacks its own fleet of transoceanic carrier ships for vehicle exports.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Horus is equipped with a hybrid propulsion system that enables transoceanic adventures with fewer emissions.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 July 2023
• Modern society has been shaped by, and depends on, many complex, interlocked systems—GPS, the internet, transoceanic shipping.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
• In 2019, about six months after the ground was broken, the Ministry of Transport and Communications admitted the airport would not be able to accommodate transoceanic flights—a far cry from their initial promise of direct flights from Europe.
  — Colleen Connolly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• There, transoceanic distances, tiny Pacific islands and dense Chinese anti-aircraft and land-attack missiles sharply constrain how and where the U.S. can exert military power.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
• Many of the most affordable transoceanic cruises are known as repositioning cruises: one-time itineraries offered when a line needs to relocate their ship, often due to seasonal changes.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2024
• The Italian design studio tapped into its engineering prowess to create a blue-water cruiser that is capable of tackling transoceanic voyages.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• Because the federal government banned all civilian supersonic flights over land 50 years ago, the studies examined transoceanic travel.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2023
• With a longer vacation window surrounding Christmas and New Year’s Day, travelers are setting out on a wide-ranging set of trending destinations, including a mix of classic urban cities, warm weather getaways, and even transoceanic trips.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2023
• Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot has rightfully been enlisted for the transoceanic itinerary.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2023
• COVID-19 outbreaks continue to force periodic factory shutdowns, long-haul truck drivers — and more recently, even trucks — are in short supply, and the once-reliable transoceanic shipping industry is teetering on breakdown.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Given the advantage of supersonic on transoceanic flights, long-haul, cross-oceanic carriers are naturally very excited, according to a Boom Supersonic spokesperson.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 7 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024