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Example sentences for "transporting"

Lexicographically close words:
transportation; transporte; transported; transporter; transporters; transports; transpose; transposed; transposes; transposing
  1. Direct discharge of the mixer into the hoisting bucket is, of course, the ideal manner of transporting the concrete from mixer to hoist, and this can generally be obtained by planning, particularly where bucket hoists or derricks are employed.

  2. This cost does not include transporting the blocks from yard or of handling them to the scaffold behind the masons, nor does it include the cost of materials and labor for mixing and delivering mortar.

  3. One of the features of this work was the method of transporting the blocks by cars.

  4. Its division and arrangement is determined by the area of the work and the type and arrangement of the plant for transporting the materials and the mixed concrete.

  5. Transporting the mixed concrete is divided into three operations--delivering concrete from mixer to hoist, hoisting, and delivering hoisted concrete to the forms.

  6. The small arms and their accouterments being of no value to our army here or at home, I have ordered them to be destroyed, for we have not the means of transporting them.

  7. He found the quartermaster's department very deficient, and had the greatest difficulty in transporting supplies to Fort Drane.

  8. A train of fifty-eight railroad cars would be required for transporting the precious metal, with two big engines, one at either end, to move the train!

  9. Illustration: Transporting 222 Tons of Bridge Material in China] For years the Steel Products Co.

  10. Indeed, some of the provisions were to come from Balboa's farm, and his own Indians were engaged in transporting them to the sea-shore.

  11. It carries with it a self-transporting commissariat in its flocks and herds.

  12. It is because by transporting one of them without deforming it we can make it coincide with the other.

  13. The rivers of unmelted ice called the glaciers act more slowly, but they also have the power of transporting gravel, sand, and boulders to great distances, and of polishing and scoring their rocky channels.

  14. At Cape Rennell (North Somerset), in a direction intermediate between the two former directions, a remarkable boulder of the same granite was found, confirming the general direction of the transporting force from south to north.

  15. They had waggons and sledges made, and the roads cleared for transporting cannon, ammunition, and other necessaries for forming a regular siege.

  16. Infantry now under his orders, and will be assigned to the charge of transporting a portion of the munitions, supplies, etc.

  17. Several horses, too, had been killed; and the loss of these was almost as severely felt as that of their riders, considering the great cost and difficulty of transporting them to these distant regions.

  18. Gonzalo, who had no scruples as to Indian labor, appropriated six thousand of the natives to the service of transporting this train of ordnance across the mountains.

  19. In Enniskillen two boys under twelve years of age were convicted of stealing one pint of Indian-meal cooked into "stirabout," and Chief Justice Blackburn vindicated the outraged law by transporting them for seven years.

  20. The fellow had been transporting the overflow of Mrs. Ralston's guests for years, but he had never met quite such an eccentric one as this.

  21. The total quantity of provisions distributed over this space was incalculable; the efforts for transporting them thither gigantic, and the result little better than nothing.

  22. Bills of exchange were first introduced to save the expense and risk of transporting the precious metals from place to place.

  23. But a small excess of imports above exports, or any other small amount of debt to be paid to foreign countries, does not usually affect the exchanges to the full extent of the cost and risk of transporting bullion.

  24. Bills of exchange having been found convenient as means of paying debts at distant places without the expense of transporting the precious metals, their use was afterward greatly extended from another motive.

  25. He had hurried ahead to gain a sufficient start, knowing that he would be impeded in the transporting of his new-made captive in the event of pursuit.

  26. After which, the next duty this Amphitryon was called upon to perform was the retying of his captive, and transporting him back to his cell.

  27. You may well guess, my dear father and mother, how transporting these kind, these generous and condescending sentiments were to me!

  28. His natural object, it would seem, in taking this course, was to secure the smaller craft for use in transporting the women and children to the other side of the Ohio.

  29. Political circumstances having taken away the principal source of demand for the timber, and no other market having been found, the operation of cutting and transporting the trees necessarily ceased.

  30. And if still larger bodies of men or animals were necessary, not only would the difficulty of directing them become greater, but the expense would increase from the necessity of transporting food for their subsistence.

  31. If, however, there is a prospect of cold or wet weather, the provident ants forbear on that day transporting their young from the inner cells, aware that their tender frames are unable to withstand an inclement sky.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transporting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carriage; carrying; conveyance; transit; transmission; transport; transportation