transcontinental

How To Use transcontinental In A Sentence

• -- The immense superiority of the Transcontinental over any other road, as a grain carrier, is due to the fact that a train can travel from the Yellowhead Pass to tide water at Quebec without encountering any adverse grades greater than four-tenths of one per cent., or 21 feet to the mile. The Problems of Transportation in Canada
• This time the men were imported as work crews to construct the first transcontinental railroad.
• The tale of the building of the transcontinental railroad, the steel band that wed the metropolitan East to the frontier West, is among the greatest in American history.
• But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
• And then perhaps in 2008 I can do a transcontinental trip across Canada, maybe get in on a Worldcon on the way home, and do a divemaster course in Lanzarote. Between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day
• But these diseases are also global: SARS hopscotched the world via transcontinental flights.
• The post-Civil War expansion of the railroad network - including the construction of the first transcontinental lines - enabled entrepreneurs to establish national corporations.
• Once at her desk, Kim Carlyle's number was easy to obtain, and, although it was 5: 30 A. M. in New York, she made the transcontinental call. WHO KILLED TIFFANY JONES?
• She has caused great offence within the Asian community by her pronouncements on issues such as Asian children speaking English in the home and her criticisms of transcontinental marriages.
• This is a long-term trend in European civilization which began with Peter the Great, and which took off in 1877 with the work of Mendeleyev in building the transcontinental railway.