8 sentences with 'transported'
Example sentences and phrases with the word transported and other words derived from it.
• « Begun in the 1920s, the collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings was transported from all over the country to settle in a corner of Michigan: the streets are cobblestone and there are gas lamps. »
• « As the ice breaks away from the parent block, it is transported by ocean currents. Along the way and as they melt, the ice leaves pollutants in the waters that affect coastal flora and fauna. »
• « Each building block for the pyramids weighed about 2.5 tons and had to be transported by ramps with ropes and pulleys. »
• « Caravans arrived in the Middle East from China and Central Asia and sold goods to waiting Italian merchants. From the Black Sea region and what was left of Byzantium, the Italians then transported these goods back to the West. »
• « Millions of people were torn from their homeland, transported to a foreign continent in appalling conditions, and worked to death or killed by their owners in the name of "discipline". »
• « Current data (available from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, created and maintained by professional historians of the slave trade) suggests that more than twelve million people were enslaved and transported to the New World from the 16th to the early 19th century. »
• « This figure is lower than the actual total, as approximately 20% of the slaves transported were on undocumented journeys (i.e., smuggled and technically "illegal" from the point of view of the slave-trading states). »
• « Caught in the Atlantic or Pacific, packed on steamships and transported to Britain, the most desirable parts of the fish were sold at prices the upper and middle classes could afford. »