TRANSPORT in a Sentence

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For TRANSPORT, below is one of 118 sentences:
The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSPORT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transport
 v.  carry from one place to another; carry away; deport
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Even the slightest word of encouragement from Alexander Petrovitch could throw a lad into a transport of tremulous joy, and arouse in him an honourable emulation of his fellows.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
3  Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to Znaim.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
4  Kutuzov with his transport had still to march for some days before he could reach Znaim.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
5  Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
6  The wagons that had reached the hussars had been consigned to an infantry regiment, but learning from Lavrushka that the transport was unescorted, Denisov with his hussars had seized it by force.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
7  And so the question whether he had or had not a cold has no more historic interest than the cold of the least of the transport soldiers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Pierre was in such a transport of rage that he remembered nothing and his strength increased tenfold.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
9  It began to run away only when suddenly seized by a panic caused by the capture of transport trains on the Smolensk road, and by the battle of Tarutino.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
10  Behind, along the riverside and across the Stone Bridge, were Ney's troops and transport.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
11  There'll hardly be another such chance to fall on a transport as today.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
12  And Denisov told the esaul that the dispatch just delivered was a repetition of the German general's demand that he should join forces with him for an attack on the transport.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
13  Denisov told him of the designs the large detachments had on the transport, of the message Petya had brought, and his own replies to both generals.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VIII
14  It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the trunks of trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
15  It was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  We have designed a whole raft of measures to improve the transport system.
17  An increase in cars has resulted in the decline of public transport.
18  Greater investment in public transport would keep more cars off the roads.
19  The owner of a car is no longer forced to rely on public transport.
20  The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
21  Services for customers on public transport are becoming non-existent.
22  It would be better to transport the goods by rail rather than by road.
23  There will have to be a sea change in people's attitudes if public transport is ever to replace the private car.
24  Bicycles score over other forms of transport in towns.
25  The transport service cannot cope with the strain of so many additional passengers.
26  What I was trying to transport is the oil that is in demand particularly.
27  Environmentalists argue that more goods should be transported by rail.
28  The emergency building is transported in individual modules, such as bedrooms and a kitchen, which are put together on site.
29  Listening to her recent performance I felt totally transported.
30  A special bus transported the tourists from the airport to a hotel.