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Example sentences for "transport"

Lexicographically close words:
transplantation; transplanted; transplanting; transplants; transpontine; transportable; transportal; transportation; transporte; transported
  1. Endless evacuations simultaneous with the destruction of industry, of necessity meant the destruction of transport also.

  2. Our almost simultaneous loss of the Donetz coal, foreign coal, and the oil of the Caucasus, obliged us in the sphere of transport to have recourse to wood.

  3. The influence of political disturbances in the economic sphere was not limited only to questions of transport and fuel.

  4. Only after we have secured, though on the smallest possible scale, the possibility of rebuilding the means of transport and production, shall we pass on to the production of articles for general consumption.

  5. The second period is the period of machine-building in the interests of transport and the storage of raw material and fuel.

  6. We must seek the reason in the fact that during the first two years we were obliged to sacrifice the interests of industry and transport to the requirements of military defence.

  7. We see, in consequence, that the chief reasons for the collapse of transport preceded November, 1917.

  8. It was not to be hoped from Addison's colder fancy and classical severity, that the Elizabethan poet could transport this critic by his inexhaustible imagery and a diction which paints the passions as well as reveals them.

  9. To the south lies a fertile plain with easy roads for the transport of provisions; on the north, a lake sixty miles long abounding in fish, soothing the mind with delicious recreation.

  10. Who has not greeted with transport the charming and sublime features of its glorious scenery as it appears anew on the horizon, as if beholding once more the face of a beloved friend?

  11. Was it a transport of pride, or of tenderness, that caused her heart to beat so painfully?

  12. To be sure, he could scarcely transport the Tyrol, but then the scene-painter and machinist could manage that.

  13. Harmony, with its grand effects, seems made to appeal to assembled men; melody, to transport the memory in solitude.

  14. Illustration: The Preparation for Incarceration in the Siberian Transport Carette.

  15. Houdini permitted himself to be chained by Herr Transport Police Lott, and to show how easy it was he wilfully showed to the judge and jury how he opened the chain and lock.

  16. Great mineral wealth exists, but the difficulty of transport and labour prevents its development.

  17. Magnificent red bulls are bred by the farmers for ploughing and other farming operations, and for the transport of goods.

  18. Bahrain with its highly developed communication and transport facilities is home to numerous multinational firms with business in the Gulf.

  19. That these precautions will not be unnecessary if the enemy are about to abandon New York, without which the enemy will carry with them the means of supplying the places to which they transport their troops.

  20. It is necessary, that vessels be procured as speedily us possible, to transport a body of from six to seven thousand men from the head of the Elk to Virginia, with their necessary apparatus.

  21. I'm afraid I've sold my soul," he murmured, in a transport of remorse.

  22. The labour entailed was prodigious, as the roads to the pass were intensely precipitous, the hill being over a mile long, and many of the transport waggons had to be double-spanned before they could make appreciable advance.

  23. Under a heavy fire guns and transport were moved, and a second position one mile and a half to south-east taken, where till afternoon the troops remained.

  24. Owing to the disposition of the British troops to east of the railway, and the scarcity of supplies and transport that militated against their mobility, the Boers were temporarily in the ascendant.

  25. But this was not the case, the Natal Force being delayed at Laing's Nek for various reasons connected with transport and the rearrangement and recuperation of the troops and the repair of the Laing's Nek tunnel.

  26. As the natives bolted, a considerable amount of transport was lost, though the Army Service Corps vigorously defended the waggons.

  27. The troops proceeded according to orders, marching over rough, mountainous, and capricious country, that caused so much inconvenience with the transport that as many as seven waggons upset within the space of a mile.

  28. The 9th was spent in a general halt on the summit of the pass, getting the transport through the Drakensberg, hauling baggage up the steeps, and skirmishing with Boers who hovered on the outskirts of the hills.

  29. The motor-transport driver gets six shillings a day, no danger, and lives like a fighting cock.

  30. The open space before the chateau, once a smooth expanse of tennis-lawn, is now a dusty picketing-ground for transport mules, destitute of a single blade of grass.

  31. I expect they'll have lots of transport there about ration-time--eh?

  32. A party of soldiers, seated upon the top of a transport waggon, see an officer passing at the side of the road.

  33. The transport with the knapsacks was not yet in port, and he was loth to return to camp empty-handed.

  34. He works in Woolwich Arsenal--he might know if more wheeled transport had been ordered.

  35. There he changed into a transport homeward bound, and proceeded on his voyage without delay.

  36. They had been left on board ship, and the transport had been expected daily in Balaclava harbour.

  37. Dulness with transport eyes the lively dunce, Remembering she herself was pertness once.

  38. What words can express my transport and astonishment: instead of darkness and despair, all was splendour and magnificence.

  39. In 1656, the plague was brought from Sardinia to Naples, being introduced into the city by a transport with soldiers on board.

  40. It was entered on 7 August, but its fall did not give the Germans the free passage they wanted; for the forts on the heights to the north commanded the railway, and the Germans contented themselves with bringing up their transport and 11 2 in.

  41. The Germans had no choice: their armies were in flight along roads choked with transport towards an ever narrowing exit, and they could only escape if given time, which they could only obtain by surrender.

  42. The response to its need had been almost overwhelming, and the Government was hard pressed to embody the hundreds of thousands of volunteers at home and to provide transport for those overseas.

  43. Success depended upon weather suitable for embarkation and skill in organizing transport and concealing our intentions from the enemy.

  44. The excellence of Germany's transport organization would enable her, in spite of her numerical inferiority, to bring adequate if not superior forces to repel attacks which depended for success upon their being simultaneous.

  45. Under these circumstances, it was with joy little short of transport that I recognised the marvellous change which had come over my mistress.

  46. Then," the young man cried, in a transport of resentment, "I will be no part of the price.

  47. He would take all the expense of transport on himself; and he proceeded to demonstrate the certain profit of the transaction.

  48. The commissariat was entirely neglected, they had no transport train whatever, and the most important posts were left without a garrison.

  49. In this condition they were suddenly attacked by Tippoo, who took advantage of the English being detained at Bangalore, while the transport train was being reorganised, to strike a blow at the Mahrattis.

  50. I have already told all men who have bullock carts and teams, that they can, if forced to leave home, earn a good living by taking service in the English transport train.

  51. Transport a hundred Burmans to work in an English workshop or factory: they will probably be all dead or mad in five years; or, what perhaps is worse, all the joy and buoyancy will have been crushed out of their souls for ever.

  52. The utterance of this word on appropriate occasions would not only ensure safety, but would remove all difficulties about transport and supplies.

  53. China is to have railways, not merely as a means of rapid transport for merchandise and produce, but for the purpose of consolidating the military strength of the empire.

  54. According to Pliny, they first built vessels fit to transport cavalry.

  55. When Xenophon was obliged to retreat after his expedition into Asia Minor, the Heracleans supplied him with ships, to transport his army into Greece.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    transport equipment; transportation equipment; transportation facilities; transported for seven years