How to Use transit in a Sentence

transit

1 of 2 noun

• There were transit cops for a minute too, but in the late 80s or early 90s the city dropped them.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• The District isn’t ready to issue fines to those who block the transit lanes.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Did you get chased much by transit cops — the Vandal Squad?
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
• The aim in all of this is achieve a mode shift — that is, a switch from cars to other forms of transit to get around.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• This transit demands action, so get ready for the pace to pick up as the hours pass by.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The bag also has straps on the inside to keep your items in place during transit.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• The thing, of course—a Big Mac, airline transit to Miami, the right to stream Bridgerton.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
• The transit agency hopes to increase the average Metrobus speed to 12 mph, up from 9.8 mph.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Video released this week by the transit district shows camera footage from three of the nine cameras on board the bus.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• Cook and his men were supposed to watch the transit from Tahiti, which the British had recently claimed.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The project is also expected to add a new transit plaza next to the housing, which will be alongside State Route 87.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The semi truck eventually emerged (three years late), while the transit options died on the vine.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• Google Maps comes in super handy for learning the basics of a new city’s transit system and other ways to get around.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• On days when drivers are lacking, the transit system has cut the frequency of bus stops on some routes.
  — David A. Lieb, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The new chief has a lot on her plate besides the agency’s ongoing transit programs.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• And that’s not counting the $220 million in street and transit upgrades the developer doled out as part of an agreement with the city.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• This is the first electric transit bus with a completely flat floor inside.
  — Evan Williams, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Warsaw is on the frontlines of the war as the leading transit hub for weapons to Ukraine and sent massive amounts of its military equipment and weapons to Ukraine.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
• It can be zipped closed, so no need to worry about any small essentials falling out in transit.
  — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2023
• Valley Metro will recognize Footprint Center event tickets as valid light rail fare on the day of the event for four hours prior to the start of the event through the end of the transit day.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
• But a major segment of global shipping is still skirting transit points through the Red Sea that are in range of Houthi attacks.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• The rising costs and lengthy transit times pushed some companies to cut back on slower-selling products and raise prices.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• Even before those firms rerouted their vessels to longer transit routes, the Houthis’ attacks pushed ocean-freight costs up by about 5 percent.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• This fiber comes from the husks of Plantago ovata plant seeds, which form a gel with water, adding soft bulk to improve stool form, passage, and transit.
  — Suzanne Finkel, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
• The nearest transit hub is Secaucus Junction, miles from MetLife.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The durable polycarbonate shell keeps your items safe as the bag (inevitably) gets jostled during transit.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
• The app used to purchase digital transit passes is just changing.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
• Total transits through the Panama Canal in December were 36% lower than a year ago, and 62% lower than two years ago, Hoffmann said.
  — Edith M. Lederer, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Carriers have also added an extra day to the transit times for various lanes.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• Many of them are still down there in the ground in fossil form, only to be discovered when construction crews dig for projects like skyscrapers and transit tunnels.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024

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transit

2 of 2 verb

• Most of those cargoes go on to transit the Suez Canal, but some could end up in Turkey.
  — Julian Lee, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• The American Third and Sixth Fleets have left those waters to transit south.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Mexico City Metro system is one of the largest in the world and one of the most heavily transited.
  — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2020
• From the new food and drink menus to transit tips to T-shirts, here’s a rundown of what fans can expect if they’re headed to a game.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• In short, transiting worlds have proved to be the keystones in the burgeoning search for Earth’s cosmic twins.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2019
• But a longer-term impediment to transit through the canal could have reversed that trend.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
• This year many ships had to transit the canal with less than their maximum load of cargo.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Ultimately, about 40 more were expected to transit through the rest of the day and on Friday.
  — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• Ship trackers and brokers said there were more than 100 ships waiting to transit the canal, which connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Lake levels this year have dropped due to drought, and canal officials have reduced the number of ships that transit each day.
  — Pam Leblanc, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2023
• But the ships that cross the oceans are much bigger than the ones transiting between Norway and Germany or powering up the Yangtze.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The sanctioned billionaires will have their assets frozen, and they won't be allowed to enter or transit through the EU.
  — Alex Scimecca, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2022
• The migrants had permission to transit through Mexico and decided to take a bus to head to the border.
  — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 17 May 2023
• The resulting dips and peaks in the star’s brightness are like a chemical barcode for the transiting planet.
  — Elise Cutts, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• It is expected to transit the South China Sea sometime in late summer on its way to Japan.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 27 May 2021
• Their attacks have raised insurance costs for commercial ships, which transit the Red Sea en route to the Suez Canal.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
• The slow zone, where mariners are asked to avoid or transit at 10 knots or less, is in effect immediately and expires on Nov. 8.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• In many instances, our line of sight is aligned so that telescopes on Earth can detect the tiny dips in starlight as an exoplanet transits its host star.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
• Instead, the drug is provided in a form with minimal charge, which can transit across cell membranes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
• Her mom had been on her way to visit, and originally planned to transit through Shanghai -- but at the advice of a travel agent, changed her flight to go through Guangzhou.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
• Tsai is transiting through the United States on her way to meetings in Central America.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• At that level, most barges that haul goods from diesel to coal are effectively unable to transit the river.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• Rues said the area of the crash is remote and transited by many commercial vehicles, including freight and dump trucks.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• From early next week—when its exits the Sun’s glare—Saturn will transit to being a morning object.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• France, Germany and Spain have struck deals with Tunisia and Morocco to intercept migrants who transit through them.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Our tentative plan after navigating the Drake was to transit Chile and return to the United States.
  — James McClintock | Uab Professor, al, 17 Apr. 2020
• Cheap, but tethered to transit Before Culdesac’s backhoe went in, the Tempe site was a neighborhood eyesore.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• Some Ukrainians are attempting to transit through Mexico to the United States.
  — Mark Hetfield, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• One is the speed with which electrons transit the organic molecule that comprises the LED.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2020
• Hong Kongers couldn't transit in one of those countries lest they be confused for someone who now fell under the new regulations.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024