Sentence examples for transited from inspiring English sources

During its second lease on life it intercepted comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1985 and then transited between the sun and Halley in 1986.

As it has transited rather painlessly from seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRII) to a competitive democracy, the country has discovered a new stability.

Hannibal famously used elephant cavalry during his invasion of Italy during the Second Punic War, taking dozens of the animals with him as he transited the Alps.

Much of this information was acquired through the extraordinary coincidence that in 1985, just seven years after Charon's discovery, it began a five-year period of mutual eclipse events with Pluto in which the moon alternately crossed the disk of (transited) and was hidden (was occulted, or was eclipsed) by Pluto, as seen from Earth, every 6.4 days.

On June 22, Syrian air defense forces shot down a Turkish reconnaissance aircraft that had transited Syrian airspace.

"US authorities asked for documents related to 50 accounts at different banks, through which corruption money is supposed to have transited," ministry spokesman Folco Galli said, confirming a report by Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.

Returning more people to sub-Saharan Africa would furthermore relieve pressure on North African nations, often asked to take back migrants who have "transited" through them.

The transit is a variety of theodolite that has the telescope so mounted that it can be completely reversed, or transited.