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Example sentences for "transatlantic"

Lexicographically close words:
transacted; transacting; transaction; transactions; transacts; transboundary; transceiver; transcend; transcendant; transcended
  1. One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made last summer by the "Etruria" was because she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool.

  2. I have thought, my friends, it might be profitable this morning if I gave you some of the moral and religious impressions which I received when, through your indulgence, I had transatlantic absence.

  3. I was also impressed in my transatlantic journeys with the wonderful power that Christ holds among the nations.

  4. Why he should have taken his passage on board a mere merchant vessel instead of enjoying the luxuries of a transatlantic steamer, I am altogether at a loss to explain.

  5. A vessel took us to Cayenne, where we secured a passage on board one of the steamers of the French Transatlantic Aspinwall line, the Ville de St. Na- zaire, which conveyed us to Europe.

  6. In the few minutes that Ned and Alan were together in their office on the first floor they decided that the sale of the new Ocean Flyer to the Aerial Utilities Company should not be consummated until the transatlantic flight had been made.

  7. Here were new constellations as well as a new continent for the transatlantic discoverer.

  8. By means of the continental cables it was known that many of the largest mail vessels of the British transatlantic lines, which had been withdrawn upon the declaration of war, were preparing in British ports to transport troops to Canada.

  9. On terra firma, he would never again have approached these men; but life on a transatlantic liner, with its inevitable promiscuousness, obliges forgetfulness.

  10. Two launches approached the transatlantic and discharged an avalanche of Germans residents in England who invaded the decks with the joy of those who tread friendly soil, desiring to see Hamburg as soon as possible.

  11. The distance between the departing transatlantic and the lighters was widening.

  12. By the glare of the bluish searchlights which were spreading a livid clearness over the sea, began the unloading of passengers and baggage for Paris, from the transatlantic into the tenders.

  13. The transatlantic was due at Boulogne at midnight where it was supposed to wait until daybreak to discharge its passengers comfortably.

  14. Soon after 1830 followed the modification of the American tariff, and the importations based on the great transatlantic loans of that period.

  15. Brazil, the transatlantic Portugal, was abandoned to the Jesuits, and they began to feel their way in Mexico.

  16. And the lady must continue to love her old Transatlantic friend.

  17. I am of your house, but I have transplanted all the good qualities of your race to American soil, and grafted them on the tree of liberty which towers aloft in all the splendour of Transatlantic luxuriance above us.

  18. In the large station at Poldhu, Cornwall, for transatlantic signalling, there are special wooden towers 215 feet high, between which the aƫrial wires hang.

  19. But transatlantic telephony is still a thing of the future.

  20. Mr. Marconi has so perfected tuning devices that his transatlantic messages do not affect receivers placed on board ships crossing the ocean, unless they are purposely tuned.

  21. This was the first seed sown, which germinated for one hundred and thirty years, and then ripened in the American Revolution; it was the opening wedge which shivered the transatlantic branches from the parent stock.

  22. But most of these debts were incurred by loans to individual inhabitants and by the issue of paper money, which became greatly depreciated and caused much confusion and embarrassment in the local and Transatlantic trade.

  23. By the aid of wireless not only were vengeful cruisers hastening in his track, but the transatlantic liners, from whom he hoped to take a heavy toll, would be warned, and take precautions accordingly.

  24. The first information that German U-boats were conducting a transatlantic campaign was brought to New York City on June 4 by Captain Humphrey G.

  25. That blessed land for aliens and criminals would receive him and offer him a convenient shelter; besides, if all he heard was true, he was in no doubt that he could pick up a living by his wits amongst his transatlantic cousins.

  26. Markworth's available funds melted down into greenbacks, and the wretched paper currency that forms the circulating medium of our transatlantic brethren, did not stretch very far.

  27. He was an old Transatlantic voyager, deep in all the arts and appliances by which such journeys are rendered agreeable.

  28. I'll certainly vote for my Transatlantic friend," said the Baronet, "and consequently for any party of which he is a member.

  29. The Deutschland soon began setting the pace for the ocean greyhounds, while other vessels of the North German Lloyd line that won transatlantic honors were the Kaiser Wilhelm II.

  30. True the voyage of this pioneer of steam from Savannah to Liverpool was not much of a success, but she managed to crawl across the sails very materially aiding the engines, and heralded the dawn of a new day in transatlantic travel.

  31. These experiments proved that if stations were erected of sufficient power transatlantic wireless could be successfully carried on.

  32. The transatlantic citizen received this battery of eyes with complete imperturbability.

  33. To the Transatlantic mind," responded Mr. Mafferton stiffly, "one can imagine it instructive.

  34. Her manner said as much--it also implied, however, that she could not possibly be held responsible for transatlantic connections by a former marriage.

  35. How were the news received by our Transatlantic brethren?

  36. Thus ended the transatlantic voyage of the Graphic balloon, a voyage that constitutes the only serious failure I can recall of anything in the line of his profession as an aeronaut that Donaldson ever undertook to do.

  37. But, during the past few years, a new sensation had been added to the life of the transatlantic traveler.

  38. The transatlantic steamship `La Provence' was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man.

  39. How melancholy is the reflection, that in so short a space we should have made such large strides towards fulfilling the predictions of our transatlantic foes!

  40. Manin was dead, Hecker an exile in transatlantic lands, Blum had been murdered--as also a score of other distinguished revolutionary leaders.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transatlantic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.