How to Use transect in a Sentence

transect

noun

• For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• As the unit’s beeps and boops mixed with bird song, the pair walked a transect through the marsh, battling sharp, stiff grasses.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
• The goal is to record butterflies within 20 feet of either side of the transect.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019
• The blue transect is different, insofar as the change occurs very near its eastern pole.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012
• The transect where Hall snorkeled had extended to 1,100 meters.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• These are transect surveys, requiring the observer to walk in a straight line across an area of no less than five acres, while making observations along that path.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019
• Marine biologist placing a transect and a square, for a later census of both fish and invertebrates.
  — Kevin Green, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
• As the boat traveled along its transect lines, Saeki reached over the side to scoop seawater from the surface every two minutes for analysis.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• The volunteers who walked the transects were not firefighters, and were not carrying packs (in an emergency, firefighters are taught to drop their packs).
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• The researchers relied on data from study sites known as transects, which record things like temperature and nutrients in the water, roughly once every decade.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
• Divers collect data from specific locations, known as transects, to monitor the reef’s production.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Unbeknownst to most state residents, a pilot flew a Cessna on east-west transects over Wisconsin earlier this year.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
• The protocol has observers on each side of the plane recording waterfowl data, with the observer on the north side also recording the number and type of wetland basins within a transect.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
• Initially, the transects were marked with cables anchored into the rock, but today divers use GPS coordinates to find them.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• There’s a 70-mile stretch of water north of Santa Rosalía that’s never had a proper biological transect.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• Each pass, or transect, creates a series of traces that can be assembled into a radargram, a 2D snapshot that provides clues about the composition and density of what's belowground.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• Rose tested mosquitoes from across the Senegal transect and other countries, imprisoning them in plexiglass cages and presenting them with two olfactory options.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
• This approach helps planners match conservation strategies to each setting, or transect zone – urban, suburban, seminatural, such as parks and golf courses, and core habitat, or undisturbed areas.
  — Eve Bohnett, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
• Instead, the current survey of her career since 2011 mostly offers a transect through her impressive body of drawings, manifesting an undeniable insurrection in the disability line.
  — Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025