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
• The transporter driver opened the back of the truck, went inside and fired up the twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6.
  — WSJ, 11 Dec. 2021
• These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 23 July 2017
• The law did not place a limit on the number of transporters or testing labs.
  — al, 15 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Will there be tractor beams, transporters and phasers set to stun anytime soon?
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Older kids aged 11+ can practice their STEM skills with this 2-in-1 car and transporter kit.
  — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 13 Oct. 2020
• Studies show that people with ADHD have more dopamine transporters in the brain.
  — Kate Harrington, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
• But hummingbird muscle fibers tend to have a lot of this transporter.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• 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
• In our muscle cells that transporter is barely present.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• The idea brings out a rare laugh from the 21-year-old, sitting in his transporter ahead of the doubleheader Detroit Grand Prix weekend.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2021
• For example, Segway will show a whole host of new electric transporters, the most flashy of which is the S-Pod, a two-wheeled chair that can’t be tipped over and can turn on a dime.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 4 Jan. 2020
• The short video essay above explains the physics of the transporter and how a version of it could come true, thanks to one of our crazes du jour: quantum teleportation.
  — Daniel Hubbard, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• As any local transporter will tell you, it’s never only one.
  — Peer Schouten, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• A few hours later, two transporters arrived—a man and a woman in plainclothes, one of them a former Marine.
  — Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2020
• The world is identifiably Star Trek, with transporters and warp speed and Romulans.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• The design of the kitchen in particular — with its thick, stark lines — was influenced by a transporter spaceship in the film, Jackson said.
  — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
• 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
• IRBMs look like small space rockets, and are launched from a transporter/erector/launcher towed by a tractor trailer.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2019
• Their engines throbbing, C-47 transporters dropped group after group of parachutists.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• 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
• The two-wheeled personal transporter was brought to market in 2001 and the sport was invented shortly thereafter.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018
• 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
• The mobile transporter and erector will make the missile difficult to locate.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2017
• Around midday, the test execution team, transporter team members and stakeholders stood at a safe distance from the sled track and watched the crash take place.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
• The retract system ensures the transporter erector is quickly positioned away from New Glenn at liftoff to provide flyout clearance.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024