Sentence examples for transected from inspiring English sources

It was decided that the ideal longitudinal segment for this study was the one that transected Paris on its way between the northern and southern ends of France — a choice that later impeded international acceptance of the system but made glorious sense to Parisians at the time.

His masterpiece, "Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)," a panoramic vista painting — spread over two screens — of an iris garden transected by a thin eight-plank bridge, is based on another classic, "The Ise Stories".

He switched modes briefly to describe in clinical detail how the bullets transected Officer Timoshenko's spinal cord just beneath his brain.

To the south and west, the Manhattan skyline came back into view, transected by the Triborough Bridge.

In Ludwika Ogorzelec's "Space Crystallization," the wood seems to grow the way minerals crystalize, creating a three-dimensional maze of boxy latticework transected by a fracturelike structure.

At the same time, river channels will be widened, dams will be built for electric power, and the forest will be transected by power and gas lines.

A water-starved bantustan of a neighbour will fail to develop a viable economy, and will hence remain corrupt, donor-dependent and undemocratic; Israeli religious settlements transecting its territory will provide a focus of nationalist bitterness, fostering terrorism.

The protagonist of Irving's fourteenth and latest novel, "Avenue of Mysteries," a non-wrestling, pro-everything Mexican-American novelist named Juan Diego Guerrero, transects the club's gravitational field only briefly.

The Taiji Fishing Cooperative in Japan has published the details of a new killing method that involves cutting (transecting) the spinal cord and purports to reduce time to death.

The Appalachian Trail transects the park and summits Greylock, so you may encounter end-to-enders.

The elements that remain — those lyrical breezes; the funny and compelling voices — crave a story line that they can transect, a river, or even just a forlorn creek, that they can ride.