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

It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or toret—an obvious pun on his name.

From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by Roberts, W. (William)

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

There were wooden shutters which were tightly closed, all except one, through an opening in which a sunbeam came and transversed the room in a shaft of glittering motes.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge

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.