transcontinental
IPA: trænzkɑntɪnˈɛntʌɫ
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) a transcontinental railroad.
adjective
- Crossing or spanning a continent.
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Examples of "transcontinental" in Sentences
- The climate is transcontinental.
- Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad begins.
- The first transcontinental telegraph was completed in 1861.
- Since when the Great Britain is the transcontinental country
- No the Civil war did not include a "transcontinental" rail road.
- He was one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway.
- The transcontinental flights could be mentioned in the transport section.
- Many of the immigrants worked as laborers on the transcontinental railroad.
- By the 1870s, the Transcontinental Railroad reached its terminus in Oakland.
- In 1869 the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the United States.
- He rode for the company until the Transcontinental Telegraph went into service.
- Argentina is developing for this kind of transcontinental or inland development drive?
- Doubleday had had a chain of eating houses on the line, as Belle termed the transcontinental railroad.
- By the term "transcontinental", I mean a railroad operated from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast by one company and one management.
- Ulrich's trek brought him through McCook last October and he returned last weekend to thank the people who helped him break a transcontinental speed record.
- We have spent millions in transcontinental lines-we have three of them practically crossing this continent; we have subsidized them so that we might have recinrocity from province to province, and trade from the East to the West.
- The relatively few people who saw the ceremony at Promontory Point, he wrote, “were strongly impressed with the conviction that the event was of historic importance; but, as I remember it now, we connected it rather with the notion of transcontinental communication and trade with China and Japan than with internal development, or what railroad men call local traffic.”