Transcontinental

Definition

transcontinental /trænzkɒntÇ'nentl; US træns-/ adj တိုက္တစ္ဝန္းတစ္လ်ားျဖတ္သန္းသြားေသာ။ တိုက္ေက်ာ္။ a transcontinental highway/ railway.

Examples

1. ‘This is a long-term trend in European civilization which began with Peter the Great
2. and which took off in 1877 with the work of Mendeleyev in building the transcontinental railway.’
3. ‘The defence of a new Russian single-track transcontinental railway to Vladivostok was both a cause for sabre-rattling and
4. ultimately
5. a major factor in defeat.’
6. ‘The post-Civil War expansion of the railroad network - including the construction of the first transcontinental lines - enabled entrepreneurs to establish national corporations.’
7. ‘The latest low-fare carrier to add coast-to-coast service is America West
8. which began its fourth transcontinental route Monday with Boston-San Francisco flights.’
9. ‘His great-grandfather
10. Sidney Dillon
11. was founding chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad and in 1869 drove the ceremonial last spike completing the nation's first transcontinental rail line.’
12. ‘In fact the majority of UK funds raised between Confederation and the First World War were used to finance the construction of Canada's two transcontinental railways.’
13. ‘Canadian Northern
14. Canada's third transcontinental railway
15. was also expanding.’
16. ‘By the 1890s
17. there were half a dozen transcontinental railways.’
18. ‘The third and most challenging joint air defense undertaking of the 1950s was the construction of a transcontinental line along the 70th parallel about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.’
19. ‘What could torpedo these plans is if tourists as a whole cancel their winter holidays out of safety concerns or if the airlines cut capacity on transcontinental routes.’
20. ‘The approach
21. however
22. and eventual arrival of the transcontinental railway in 1869
23. quickly brought significant and interrelated changes to Utah.’
24. ‘Forest harvesting started in the region as soon as the transcontinental railway was opened in 1910.’
25. ‘The unity of the United States was effected under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
26. who introduced the transcontinental railway system.’
27. ‘Notably
28. in 1869
29. the eastbound Central Pacific and westbound Union Pacific railroads met at Promontory
30. Utah
31. completing the nation's first transcontinental railway.’
32. ‘We don't have a transcontinental railway system!’
33. ‘After 1876
34. American methods typified by the development of the American transcontinental railway system
35. were adopted in Germany
36. Russia
37. Japan
38. and elsewhere
39. including China.’
40. ‘The track later known as the Oodnadatta Track became the main overland route for drovers and later the transcontinental railway to Darwin.’
41. ‘Later the Chinese made the westward journey of Mormon converts infinitely more convenient by building the transcontinental railway.’
42. ‘Six years later
43. in order to finish construction of a transcontinental railway
44. the United States purchased an additional 30
45. 000 square miles of Mexican land for $10 million.’
46. ‘Asians have been intertwined with America's destiny since Chinese immigrants arrived en masse to build the transcontinental railway after the civil war.’