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How To Use intercontinental In A Sentence

• On intercontinental flights that last as long as 20 hours, four pilots rotate with only one takeoff and one landing to hone their flying skills.
• The B-1B is a multi-role, long-range bomber, capable of flying intercontinental missions without refueling, then penetrating present and predicted sophisticated enemy defenses.
• Clare Boothe Luce, the American playwright, Congresswoman and ambassador, called the beeps emitted by Sputnik as it sailed through space "an intercontinental outer-space raspberry," a jeer at the notion that America had some "gilt-edged guarantee of national superiority. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• As early as 1907, experiments by the Intercontinental Rubber Company were conducted on guayule, a Mexican desert shrub that contained 20 percent pure rubber that lent itself to harvesting.
• Airline travel has now supplanted travel in ocean liners as the principal means of intercontinental travel, and the same three class structure has asserted itself.
• My successor spent several months on the intercontinental telephone lines trying to locate the debtors.
• Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), resulting in the concept that MRSA has emerged on a few occasions after penicillinase-stable β-lactam antibiotics were introduced to clinical practice, followed by intercontinental spread of individual clones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
• That year, within the pink-hued walls of the Boca Raton Resort & Club, Atlanta commodities exchange IntercontinentalExchange , called ICE, made a surprise, unwelcomed bid for the Chicago Board of Trade. Overheard: Merger Talk in Florida
• It is also the final race before the awkwardly-named but ultimately successful, project that the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup represented, grows up into next year's full-blooded, FIA-approved competition. Audi and Peugeot fight for final prize as ILMC bids farewell in China
• A Continental Airlines pilot reported being startled by what he described as a rocket that shot past his cockpit window Monday when the plane was about eight miles north of George Bush Intercontinental Airport. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: May 2008 Archives