transit

Example Sentences

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“This arrest comes following a contact earlier that day at a nearby transit center for similar circumstances,” the department’s statement read.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Metro kiosk, which offers the supposed convenience of paying public transit fare to a machine.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

It applies to the strait and adjacent waters to "secure transit passage and to deter attempts to close, obstruct or otherwise interfere with international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz."

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

To get out of the first island chain, Chinese aircraft carriers and other warships must transit narrow waterways such as the Miyako Strait, which lies between the Japanese islands of Okinawa and Miyako.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

We were in shaky transit that summer from the groveling status of Lower Middlers to the nearrespectability of Upper Middlers.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles