Sentence examples for a transom from inspiring English sources

From a transom on our left came a voic.

Davidoff said he hoisted Katzenberg onto his shoulders and through a transom.

Every time the gurney lurched over a transom, the boy winced in pain.

"A boat has a transom, a stern and an after cockpit," he cautioned.

There is a transom window above the door to let in more light.

Raised all the way, the hatch opened into a transom gorged with stars.

The praam, a lapstrake boat with a square stern and a small transom bow, is a popular Danish type; formerly a sailing and rowing boat, it came to be used extensively as a motor boat.

Because — of course — he'd long ago climbed over a bridge rail or slipped off a boat transom or a rockface in the remotest Arizona canyon and said goodbye to this world of woes.

Reasons for why a boat might sink include a low transom, missing drain plugs, cooling system leaks, or openings either incorrectly closed or broken doors (such as on a car ferry).[2] The broken doors is what sank the car ferry Estonia.

The box, which originated in a smaller version at the Hong Kong location as a way for guests to receive their shined shoes (and eliminate what Mr. Hickox called the "tacky" sight of a shoe-lined hallway), represents a kind of third space in hotels, a neutral transom across which things magically appear and disappear without fumbling interaction.

The classic powerboat theme is captured in the car's level shoulder line, creased along its length as if by a wake, and the long, flat deck lid ending in a curvaceous transom.