How to Use transpacific in a Sentence

transpacific

adjective

• The flight also marks Boston’s first non-stop service to Asia and the 787’s first transpacific flight.
  — Jason Paur, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2012
• And then, 14 years after that, the Spanish colonized Manila as the hub of their transpacific trade.
  — Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2015
• But airlines are starting to bring back a handful of transatlantic and transpacific flights to places such as Madrid, Paris and Tokyo, meaning those big planes with longer range will be needed once again.
  — Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Although historians knew of this transpacific slave trade, the origins of its victims were lost.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• So maybe a transpacific flight is too long for having nonreclining seats.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• The timeliness of transpacific ocean shipping, as measured by Flexport, is at its worst ever.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2021
• United is both the largest transatlantic carrier and the largest transpacific carrier.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Fundraising for the memorial was a transpacific effort.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• Yellen’s visit comes after a long drought in transpacific dialogue.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Supply chains are interrupted and transpacific travel has ground to a standstill.
  — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• This epic passage established a transpacific link, and no other shipping route has been more successful or lasted longer.
  — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2018
• The Trump administration sought the accord after pulling out of a transpacific agreement, which covers 11 countries.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Broadway is a testing ground for the West End, and vice versa, with Sydney and Melbourne not infrequently triangulating the transatlantic (and transpacific) theater trade.
  — Mikael Jansson, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
• Transatlantic and transpacific flying are expected to return more slowly.
  — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 11 May 2020
• One of the many kinks in the supply chain is that smaller shipping companies that previously worked regional routes in Asia have gotten into the transpacific business as demand and freight rates skyrocketed this year.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• Especially in Europe and Asia, there are also lingering doubts over the strength and direction of U.S. democracy and the solidity of the transatlantic and transpacific partnerships.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• Beijing’s failure to contain the coronavirus — on top of a trade war that punished Montana farmers — has eroded China’s standing and created an opening to attack lawmakers who promoted transpacific ties.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• The state's power costs are relatively low, Hillsboro is close to transpacific communications cables that land on the Oregon cost, and property is inexpensive compared to other markets.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 28 May 2018
• So South Korea’s decision to play ball is receiving some unusual transpacific attention.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 5 May 2020
• The president of French Polynesia, Édouard Fritch, acknowledges this, saying in a statement that exceptional circumstances will be considered for transpacific voyages.
  — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2021
• As demand grows for international travel, a major priority for Sky Harbor is attracting transatlantic and transpacific routes.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2024
• The show stars Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh as the mother to two vastly different sons navigating surprising family secrets and a transpacific power struggle among triads following an assassination attempt on their father.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• These returns can replenish retailers’ low inventories, while skirting the astronomical rates and congestion of transpacific shipping.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024