Sentence examples for the first transit from inspiring English sources
"The first transit was captured just three days after we declared the spacecraft operationally ready.
The French astronomer Guillaume le Gentil was barred entry to Pondicherry for the first transit and watched hopelessly from sea.
De Blasio won in a landslide, but his mandate won't extend beyond the first severely botched snow removal, the first transit disaster, the first spike in violent crime.
Even after the opening of the first transit home in October to help demobilized children reintegrate into society, the Tigers drafted more of them, Unicef said.
The French abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche made his way across Siberia in 1761 for the first transit, then perished in Baja California in 1769, after witnessing the second.
A first batch of 49 children were released by the Tamil Tigers and sent to the first transit home, in Kilinochchi, in early October, and six more were sent there in December, Unicef said.
Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c are the first transiting planets detected in such an orbital configuration.
KOI-314c is the first transiting Earth-mass planeverver found and is the lightest alien world to have both its mass and size measured, researchers said.
She was the third transit worker killed in recent months.
He proposed at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California during the second transit of Venus last June — the last one until 2117.
He stayed in the area to watch the second transit in 1769, only for cloud to obscure his view.
