transition

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transition, each labelled with its topic.

• The transition from the quiet verse into the full chorus takes exactly two bars and lifts the whole room.

  Music

• The transition to the new billing system took nine months, and customers noticed nothing except a redesigned invoice.

  Business

• Triathletes rehearse the transition out of the water until pulling on a helmet and shoes costs under thirty seconds.

  Fitness

• The transition between administrations lasted ten weeks, during which every department briefed people who could not yet decide anything.

  Politics

• The team scores most of its points in transition, sprinting the ball up the floor before the defense can set.

  Basketball

• The transition from a planned economy to open markets left the country's factories competing overnight with cheaper imports.

  Economics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains transition. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• perceive
• orient
• integrating
• procedure
• domestic
• contracting
• successive
• absorbing
• emphasizing
• theme
• confirming
• compounded