transversed

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Our bodies are transversed by millions of nerve fibres that transmit information.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

These were transversed with the same colours of other heated bodies, and the latter were absorbed and rendered black.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

The distance was perhaps two hundred yards and Captain Jack felt that if this distance could be transversed without discovery, the success of the raid was assured.

From The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)

Indeed, there is but one principal street, which is transversed by a multitude of lanes, which on one side lead down to the sea, and on the other scramble up a steep hill.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon

They are all transversed, because if a shell or bomb should burst in one part of the trench the transverse prevents the spread of the shrapnel.

From Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by Lewis, R.