What is "transatlantic"

Usage examples of "transatlantic".

Yankee passes for a mighty clever guesser, outpointing with ease his transatlantic cousin.

Although the convoy system had been extended, much transatlantic traffic was still carried in unescorted merchant ships with naval armed guards.

A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of Convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.

The Czechs - like other central and east European countries - mistook a transatlantic tiff for a geopolitical divorce and tried to implausibly capitalize on the yawning rift that opened between the erstwhile allies.

Another load of death was on its way, intended for the mighty Medea, superliner of the transatlantic route!

On Monday, two days before the investiture, Celia received a transatlantic call from Bill Ingram.

Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence.

He had on several occasions warned the President about security on his transatlantic telephone conversations with Ambassador Bullitt in France and later with Churchill—a wise move, for, though he did not know it, the Nazis had already penetrated that scrambler.

His offhand self-assurance in respect of digestive biscuits revealed his transatlantic origins.

Last year I took a transatlantic weekend business trip that included breakfast in London with Mohamed Al Fayed and dinner in Slovenia with Melania’s parents before flying back to New York.

Dull would he truly be of soul who did not prefer its faded splendours, its new hesitancies, to the hot certainties of that transatlantic New Rome with its Nazified architectural gigantism, which employed the oppressions of size to make its human occupants feel like worms .

And then I saw that the whole industrial establishment of the world, with all of its magnificent machinery, its thousand-ton furnaces, its transatlantic cables, its mahogany offices, its stock exchanges, its blazing electric signs, its power, its wealth—all of it was run, not by bankers and boards of directors, but by any unshaved humanitarian in any basement beer joint, by any face pudgy with malice, who preached that virtue must be penalized for being virtue, that the purpose of ability is to serve incompetence, that man has no right to exist except for the sake of others.

He needs to pick up a replacement suitcase so that he has as much luggage leaving the superpower as he had when he entered it: He doesn't want to be accused of trafficking in physical goods in the midst of the transatlantic trade war between new world protectionists and old world globalists.

Wynand thought of the yacht's engine, of skyscrapers, of transatlantic cables, of everything man had made.

He motioned Pitt and Loren to sit at a hatch-cover table lain with an elegant silver and china service bearing the emblem of a French transatlantic steamship line.