How to Use transmission in a Sentence

transmission

noun

• We are receiving a live transmission from the scene of the accident.
• The equipment is used for the transmission of television signals.
• My car has a manual transmission.
• This car comes with automatic transmission.
• That means a cough or a kiss can be the method of transmission.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• The main threat is storms, which can bring down transmission wires and poles.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 July 2024
• The first major mode of transmission for flu is by droplet.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2022
• The manual transmission has short throws and a clutch that’s easy to learn and use.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022
• If the wheels are engaged with the engine through the transmission, there's still the compression of a gas in the cylinders.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Still missing its wheels, the rear brake discs spun as the engine and transmission were warmed.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2022
• According to experts, the rise in cases is due to the high transmission rate of the new strain.
  — Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
• But spread of monkeypox through the air is not thought to be a major source of transmission.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• His choice of transmission still confounds some of his peers.
  — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• The short shifter made switching gears in the manual transmission quick and easy.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 May 2022
• The price tag for the Hydro-Québec transmission could be upwards of $1 billion.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2023
• Some of the funds would be distributed as grants to researchers studying the transmission of pathogens.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 27 Nov. 2023
• That done, the transmission shifts up and down in response to the driver’s instructions.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
• Growth of transmission lines in the U.S. is frozen, and new transformer equipment is now delayed by 2-3 years.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• Brown, however, notes that transmission lines can take a decade or longer to build.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2023
• Studies have shown that masks reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
  — Faye Chiu, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• The risk of measles transmission may be increasing in other parts of the country, too.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2025
• This approach has been used in Southeast Asia and Australia to lower the rates of dengue transmission.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• And with transmission rates this high, the next variant may arrive all the sooner—and could, by chance, end up more severe.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
• In Congo, the transmission routes need further study, WHO said.
  — Bhanvi Satija, Puyaan Singh, Jennifer Rigby, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
• Will 2024 be the year the world finally stops polio transmission?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• And last but not least ... On ode to manual transmission.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• It’s mated to a five-speed manual transaxle transmission that sends 240 horses to the rear axle.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
• To lament the end of the manual transmission is to eulogize much more than shifting gears.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
• The distance from Bolden to the present day is only six generations, but the mentorship, stewardship, and transmission of this most American music has always depended on elders of the craft.
  — Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
• Sporadic, individual cases of H5N1 among people suggest that human-to-human transmission may likely occur at some point.
  — Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025