How to Use transmission in a Sentence

transmission

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  • We are receiving a live transmission from the scene of the accident.
  • The equipment is used for the transmission of television signals.
  • My car has a manual transmission.
  • This car comes with automatic transmission.
  • That means a cough or a kiss can be the method of transmission.
    — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
  • The main threat is storms, which can bring down transmission wires and poles.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 July 2024
  • If the wheels are engaged with the engine through the transmission, there's still the compression of a gas in the cylinders.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • According to experts, the rise in cases is due to the high transmission rate of the new strain.
    — Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
  • His choice of transmission still confounds some of his peers.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The price tag for the Hydro-Québec transmission could be upwards of $1 billion.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the funds would be distributed as grants to researchers studying the transmission of pathogens.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 27 Nov. 2023
  • That done, the transmission shifts up and down in response to the driver’s instructions.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
  • Brown, however, notes that transmission lines can take a decade or longer to build.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Studies have shown that masks reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This approach has been used in Southeast Asia and Australia to lower the rates of dengue transmission.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In Congo, the transmission routes need further study, WHO said.
    — Bhanvi Satija, Puyaan Singh, Jennifer Rigby, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Will 2024 be the year the world finally stops polio transmission?
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
  • One group of pulleys drives the blades, another group powers a pair of transmissions–one at each rear wheel.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But after that transmission, rangers stopped hearing from them — and the location of the device did not change.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • In other cases drivers may need to stop and restart the engine to get the transmissions to work properly.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2024
  • And with a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission as part of the power train, the Super Sport sprints from zero to 62 mph in 2.4 seconds.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Most exposures that result in transmission last at least an hour, if not much longer, the researchers say.
    — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Workers making gasoline engines and transmissions will need a place to work when their plants are phased out.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The gearbox aids in this recharging, and acts as something of a nerve-center for many of the automatic functions of the transmission and drive modes.
    — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Whether those projects survive depends in part on how quickly new transmission lines are built.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Workers who now make engines and transmissions at all three companies will need places to work as their plants are phased out.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • State and federal officials have said the risk of transmission is low.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The balloon usually costs less than $30, while the data transmission is the most expensive part of the payload.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Like that Civic, the 2024 Sentra uses a continuously variable transmission to send power to the front wheels only.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Even if such passive social distancing may have not evolved to prevent transmission to others, simply being too sick to interact with others will still reduce the spread of germs.
    — Sebastian Stockmaier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024

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