Sentence examples for transportation instead of from inspiring English sources

It's sometimes thought that "transportation" instead of the good old "transport" is an example of that annoying US habit of bolting on needless extra syllables to perfectly good words, but "transportation" is used in British English from 1540.

He preferred a small apartment to a palatial residence and travelled by public transportation instead of chauffeured car.

"While baby boomers are still a very important segment, we're finding that a lot of younger people are using e-bikes for transportation, instead of cars".

Known for his outreach to the country's poor, he gave up a palace for a small apartment, rode public transportation instead of a chauffeur-driven car and cooked his own meals.

And since high school students have to take public transportation instead of school buses, some students who live on the west side of Yonkers are unwilling to go to school on the other side of the town.

Ms. Barshay met Mr. Bodenstein on an R subway train in January 1999, which happened to be the first day that Ms. Barshay was carrying out a resolution to use public transportation instead of cabs.

That job will be up to the likes of the Federal Highway Administration, local air quality management offices and departments of transportation instead.

In fact, for reasons unbeknownst to you, your son seems interested in playing with cars, trains, trucks, planes and other modes of transportation instead.

This invention changed the world because we had taken the efficiency of biological transportation and moved on to technological transportation instead.

GETTING TO THE AIRPORT If you can't drive the person, arrange it with a volunteer driving program or medical transportation company instead of a taxi, said James D. Stowe, who researches older adults and their transportation needs at the University of Missouri Hospital.

BMW executives said that such investments reflected the company's support of multimodal transportation systems, instead of systems that rely only on the automobile.