TRANSPORT in a Sentence

Learn TRANSPORT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
118 example sentences for TRANSPORT, such as:
1. It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
2. We need more money to improve transport in London.
3. The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
4. The museum is easily accessible by public transport.
5. Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to Znaim.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSPORT
transport
 n.  the act of moving something from one location to another
 v.  transport commercially
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Even the slightest word of encouragement from Alexander Petrovitch could throw a lad into a transport of tremulous joy, and arouse in him an honourable emulation of his fellows.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
3  Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to Znaim.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
4  Kutuzov with his transport had still to march for some days before he could reach Znaim.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
5  Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
6  The wagons that had reached the hussars had been consigned to an infantry regiment, but learning from Lavrushka that the transport was unescorted, Denisov with his hussars had seized it by force.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
7  And so the question whether he had or had not a cold has no more historic interest than the cold of the least of the transport soldiers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Pierre was in such a transport of rage that he remembered nothing and his strength increased tenfold.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
9  It began to run away only when suddenly seized by a panic caused by the capture of transport trains on the Smolensk road, and by the battle of Tarutino.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
10  Behind, along the riverside and across the Stone Bridge, were Ney's troops and transport.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
11  There'll hardly be another such chance to fall on a transport as today.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
12  And Denisov told the esaul that the dispatch just delivered was a repetition of the German general's demand that he should join forces with him for an attack on the transport.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
13  Denisov told him of the designs the large detachments had on the transport, of the message Petya had brought, and his own replies to both generals.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VIII
14  It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the trunks of trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
15  It was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
2  The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.
3  It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
4  The government wants more people to use public transport instead of private cars.
5  If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
6  Citizen discussion panels need to explore issues such as public transport, community care, or response to unemployment.
7  The creation of an efficient and sustainable transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
8  We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them.
9  Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.
10  Staff who transfer to a different office will receive a transport allowance.
11  The museum is easily accessible by public transport.
12  The group has been given a remit to examine ways of improving the local transport system.
13  A heavy fall of snow had disrupted the city's transport system.
14  France and Germany invest far more per capita in public transport than Britain.
15  We need more money to improve transport in London.