transited

past tense of transit

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of transited On Wednesday, Saudi shipping company Bahri said two Filipino sailors were killed in an attack late Monday as their vessel transited the strait. David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 But that’s a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that transited daily before the war began. Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 The firm assessed that just five vessels had transited the strait Tuesday, down from seven on Monday and nine on Sunday. Steve Kopack, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 Just five commodity vessels transited the Strait of ‌Hormuz on Tuesday, below the ⁠10-day average of 15, according to preliminary data from Kpler. Mike Sheen,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 Fewer than 20 ships transited the waterway over the weekend, with little sign of a US-Iran truce on the horizon. Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026 That, in turn, makes less ground transport available, increasing the cost of shipping overland and raising the price on a wide range of goods that never even transited the canal. Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 In 2025 about 69 million metric tons of cargo transited the Kiel Canal. Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026 On Wednesday, nine commercial vessels with active Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders transited the waterway, unchanged ​from Tuesday, data from Kpler ​showed. Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transited
Verb
  • Sting is set to narrate a new documentary portrait of Nino Rota, the Italian composer whose music traversed the worlds of cinema and the concert hall, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½ to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.
    Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Just east of the creek – which was crossed by a stone bridge built in 1896 – Monticello's main street branched north from the highway near Gunn Ranch.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • This includes images from Mars rovers starting in the 1990s and data showing that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space in the 2010s.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Crude-tanker stocks have led the rally, up 120% year-to-date, followed by car carriers, gas carriers and dry-bulk shippers, Lloyd's data show.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Officers followed the sounds of the gunfire to another floor, where a smoky haze limited their visibility.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Lukas navigated the group of out-of-town commanders to the closest door.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, her mother, having navigated four older siblings’ athletic careers, was free to travel with 14-year-old Tracy because the nest was empty.
    Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Many of them traveled to Orlando for a workout-and-hang Hurts organized over the summer.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The four players traveled from Los Angeles to Australia as goodwill ambassadors.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Rangers closer Jacon Latz (3-2) then intentionally walked Yandy Diaz before Aranda homered into the home bullpen beyond right field.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Juan Soto was intentionally walked to get to Bichette, who smashed an 0-1 slider 412 feet to left-center field for the go-ahead blast.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

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