How to Use transmit in a Sentence

transmit

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  • The disease is transmitted by sexual contact.
  • The radio transmits on two different frequencies.
  • The technology allows data to be transmitted by cellular phones.
  • The tick needs to be attached for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the virus, according to the CDC.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The video was transmitted through space at a record speed of 101 seconds.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • So take take a deep breath, throw on some Revolver, and try to transmit them his way at noon.
    — Vulture, 5 July 2023
  • Sensory nerves in the limbs send signals to motor neurons in the spinal cord, which in turn transmit them to the brain.
    — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This is the only type of plague that can be transmitted between people.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Affected nerves can include ones that transmit messages between the brain and spine and other parts of the body, such as the legs.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • What is the most common disease in deer? Can deer transmit disease to humans?
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Since then, my whole life has been trying to put together songs like that, and to transmit that feeling.
    — Arsenio Orteza, SPIN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Wearing wedge heels decreased the range of motion in your ankles and transmits less force to the plantar fascia.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 12 July 2023
  • For a disease to be transmitted, a tick must remain connected to its host for about 24 to 36 hours.
    — Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In most cases, a tick has to be attached for around 36 to 48 hours before the bacteria can be transmitted.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
  • What was less clear late Friday is whether it’s allowed to be transmitted via text message.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The only other location transmitted from the phone, the warrant said, was the next day at a public golf course in Greensboro.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The non-assisted rack-and-pinion steering is a delight: quick, precise, and with the right amount of road feel transmitted to your hands.
    — Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But that line is moving farther and farther up the mountain, and this disease is being transmitted all the way to the top of the mountain in some instances.
    — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This means detecting one phonon as having been transmitted or reflected forces the other phonon to be in the same state.
    — Andrew N. Cleland, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • On a cloudless night, the stars brighten, then flicker on and off, as if a kid were playing with a light switch, transmitting a series of numbers.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Although the two types of mosquitoes that transmit dengue are found in some counties, the virus is not endemic in the state, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This happens because the wall cavities between studs are insulated but the framing is not, and the wood transmits heat.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • As the noble piano theme is stated there are nervous electronic sounds which catch the runners’ tension and transmit it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This is the use of optical technologies that transmit data using light.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Mounce leads a team trying to save forest birds on Maui, where warmer weather is expanding the range of mosquitoes that transmit bird-killing avian malaria.
    — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Hook up your smartphone, and data stored there can be transmitted to carmakers.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • However, small cracks in the road transmit vibrations up through the steering wheel and seats, something rival crossovers such as the Ford Escape and the Kia Sportage smooth out more thoroughly.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
  • As the worm grows older, its germline transmits the repair signal less effectively, and so its body declines, too.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Their microphones and cameras can record and transmit sounds and images that depict the facts of war or provide tools for propaganda.
    — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Using waveguides, the army now had a way to transmit bursts of radio waves to detect objects at a distance, which is obviously useful in a war.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

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