TRANSPORTATION in a Sentence

Learn TRANSPORTATION 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 TRANSPORTATION, such as:

1. Sentence, transportation for life.
2. She was not transported to Camelot.
3. It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
4. The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
5. With transportation so limited it was kind of so many to come.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSPORTATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transportation
 n.  the act of expelling a person from their native land
 n.  the act of moving something from one location to another
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  She gave her approval to the plan of hiring out the horse even though it meant the family would be without any means of transportation temporarily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  With transportation so limited it was kind of so many to come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  The railroad was more than a means of transportation to Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  It was like asking, as a favour, to be sentenced to transportation from Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
5  Sentence, transportation for life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
6  This small staff was quite equal to all the requirements, for a canal between Beaucaire and Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting boats for the cart and the stagecoach.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
7  I saw vessels near the shore and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
8  Elizabeth alone had the power to draw me from these fits; her gentle voice would soothe me when transported by passion and inspire me with human feelings when sunk in torpor.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
9  On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  We transported the shellfish, or the 'relish' as Mr. Peggotty had modestly called it, up into our room unobserved, and made a great supper that evening.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
11  Peter might have been hanged, or Tom transported; but Littimer was perfectly respectable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
12  The end of the negotiation was, that she bought the property on tolerably easy terms, and Traddles was transported with pleasure.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
13  At last I ran away myself, whenever I saw an emissary of the police approaching with some new intelligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
14  She was not transported to Camelot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  It is as if from the open field a brick-kiln were transported to her planks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  Environmentalists argue that more goods should be transported by rail.
17  The emergency building is transported in individual modules, such as bedrooms and a kitchen, which are put together on site.
18  Listening to her recent performance I felt totally transported.
19  A special bus transported the tourists from the airport to a hotel.
20  The wounded were transported as tenderly as possible out of the main egress from the bowl, it being impractical to use the other.
21  Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built.
22  The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
23  The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.
24  It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
25  The government wants more people to use public transport instead of private cars.
26  If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
27  Citizen discussion panels need to explore issues such as public transport, community care, or response to unemployment.
28  The creation of an efficient and sustainable transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
29  We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them.
30  Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.