transit

Example Sentences

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Iraq said it’s received permission from Iran to have its oil tankers transit the strait.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

“This arrest comes following a contact earlier that day at a nearby transit center for similar circumstances,” the department’s statement read.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Metro kiosk, which offers the supposed convenience of paying public transit fare to a machine.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

At an event on Tuesday, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said that Iran’s ambassador to Malaysia had guaranteed tankers of the Southeast Asian country can transit the key energy shipping route without paying a fee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them share.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri