How to Use transect in a Sentence

transect

noun

• As the unit’s beeps and boops mixed with bird song, the pair walked a transect through the marsh, battling sharp, stiff grasses.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
• For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• The transect where Hall snorkeled had extended to 1,100 meters.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Nobody’s actually done a transect of one of these walls.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• The volunteers who walked the transects were not firefighters, and were not carrying packs (in an emergency, firefighters are taught to drop their packs).
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• The protocol has observers on each side of the plane recording waterfowl data, with the observer on the north side also recording the number and type of wetland basins within a transect.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
• There’s a 70-mile stretch of water north of Santa Rosalía that’s never had a proper biological transect.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• Unbeknownst to most state residents, a pilot flew a Cessna on east-west transects over Wisconsin earlier this year.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
• Rose tested mosquitoes from across the Senegal transect and other countries, imprisoning them in plexiglass cages and presenting them with two olfactory options.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
• As the unit’s beeps and boops mixed with bird song, the pair walked a transect through the marsh, battling sharp, stiff grasses.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
• For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• The transect where Hall snorkeled had extended to 1,100 meters.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Nobody’s actually done a transect of one of these walls.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• The volunteers who walked the transects were not firefighters, and were not carrying packs (in an emergency, firefighters are taught to drop their packs).
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• The protocol has observers on each side of the plane recording waterfowl data, with the observer on the north side also recording the number and type of wetland basins within a transect.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
• There’s a 70-mile stretch of water north of Santa Rosalía that’s never had a proper biological transect.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• Unbeknownst to most state residents, a pilot flew a Cessna on east-west transects over Wisconsin earlier this year.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
• Rose tested mosquitoes from across the Senegal transect and other countries, imprisoning them in plexiglass cages and presenting them with two olfactory options.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020

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