How To Use Across In A Sentence

She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
As for me, I was feeling a little spaced out and tired from my trip across the pond yesterday.

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The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
We had to walk across a ploughed field.
The loo was in a tin hut across the road. The Sun
I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
In all the sale extends to 800 lots, ranging across plant, machinery, tools, office equipment, furniture and computers.
Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.
One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
A new train station and a footbridge across the river are also part of the project, which aims to rejuvenate the riverside area.
Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
Dozens of deep scars and pits ran across the length its snout.
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
But it means you get this style of performance across the board that is people inhabiting characters rather than pretending to be people. Times, Sunday Times
Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.
These companies will also sell you mason bee cocoons, if you don't want to wait for the neighborhood bees to stumble across your beehouse on their own. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Another type of light bulb you may come across is the tungsten halogen bulb.
We came across a herd of Cape buffalo grazing in a field, their eyes glassy when hit by the spotlight. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week. Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
Slicked-back hair, a bushy Italian mustache, sleeveless Iggy Pop T-shirt, cut to show his shoulder tats - "wham" across the left, "pow" on the right. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
Over 370 people participated in that townhall telemeeting from across the State. California Progress Report
Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute.
Cut the beef across the grain into paper thin slices.
DavidDP at 7.27: ever come across something called cytochrome C? John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
A senior detective who led the hunt for two armed robbers behind a series of terrifying raids across Bradford today told of the desperate race against time to catch them before someone was shot.
Mrs Scott went across as a minuscule Great Lady - they should have seen Mrs Van L as she set off this morning! THE QUEST FOR K
She planted little kisses across its forehead and it gurgled.
The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
The historic buildings which will receive grants in the present allocation are from right across the country.
Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
A laddish culture is rife in many universities, and cuts across all social classes. Times, Sunday Times
These electrical signals send electrical impulses across the skin to an implanted receiver/stimulator in the shoulder to the electrode leads in the arm and hand.
They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
For five days he trekked across the mountains of central China.
More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
In the course of the summer, I came across several offered for sale in plantsmen's catalogues which I simply had to have.
On the promotion campaign across 11 cities, the Dew Adventure Games with daredevil feats by international skate boarders and BMX bike riders drew huge crowds.
Not to mention the expression suite-ing that results in the physical indistinguishability of voles across such a wide range of C-values. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
The left side of the fairway is preferred, short of three bunkers that stretch across at 328 yards. USATODAY.com - Open history at St. George's plus a hole-by-hole glance
If the system is treating holidays like weekends, then the risk of substandard care is greatly increased across the year. Times, Sunday Times
He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
She threw down the book and hurtled the bobbin of thread across the room.
The micro-mini white cover-up she had donned over her bathing suit was removed without circumstance, revealing a shimmering gold maillot that dipped very low in back and was accented by sheer finely-woven gold mesh across the waistline in front. Who Said It Would Be Easy
Maxwell's theoretical unification of electricity and magnetism was engineered into the modern human power to communicate across space at the speed of light.
The government extended its remit as part of crime prevention across the aviation industry.
She could walk without ever slipping on railroad tracks, across the tops offences, on swaying tree branches.
They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
There are hefty charges across the board for one-way rental.
The door was bolted, and the woman stood against it, arms folded across her chest.
Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott. Undefined
He leaned over and reached into the glove compartment, his forearm accidentally brushing across her thigh.
Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.
Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
Across the room, a pane of glass in the window cracked with a sharp pop.
Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
The improvement has been across the board, with all divisions either increasing profits or reducing losses.
Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria. Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border
Within seconds, the celebrity and his famous partner were named across social media. The Sun
The Norwegian's header across goal seemed to leave Arveladze with an unmissable chance, but Culkin made a brave stop and was extremely unlucky that the rebound fell to Reyna, who scored from six yards.
Formerly called Stanleyville, it was once known across Africa as a vibrant meeting spot for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign businessmen. ANC Daily News Briefing
Six armoured personnel carriers were parked across the road. Times, Sunday Times
Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all.
This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
Staff have been told that the workload is unlikely to ease in the near future as there are 1,700 prison jobs across Britain that remain unfilled. Times, Sunday Times
A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain. Neth Space
From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
The results show a huge increase in pricing across many cities. The Sun
Ten of us broke the ice across the harbour with our feet and glided our boats out into the liquid waters beyond.
The cinema itself was pretty filthy, with popcorn strewn across the floor. The Sun
Your advertisers saw your terrific ratings that spanned across the board -- your demo being virtually every demo -- so they hawked everything from Viagra to gaming and condoms to candy bars during your time slot; those ratings were due partly to the Sci-Fi Channel's smartly treating you like its golden child, not emaciating your following by constantly changing your air time (did someone say, "Fascape"?). Mike Ragogna: OMG! No More BSG!
Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house. READY?
It was in that moment that several emotions flickered across the young girl's face.
The group built their reputation by playing across the length and breadth of North America.
The band coalesced in 1998 during a legendary trek across Canada, where the members busked and barnstormed for gas money and food whenever they could.
She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
The exhibit will display pictures from his trek across Siberia.
You can also schedule defragmentation across your network.
To make matters even worse, sharp needles of pain were shooting across her eyes and the soup felt like lead in her stomach.
The NDTV network broadcast footage from the scene, about 170km southeast of New Delhi, showing debris strewn across the tracks and police officers carrying bodies covered with sheets on stretchers.
Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
Maybe the bisection would leave a piece of his land isolated and far from any overpass, and how, the farmer wanted to know, was he supposed to get across that highway with a tractor? Interstate 69
I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
It's all a matter of perspective and intent, something Cave covetously explores across the two discs.
It was a breezy morning, the wind sending washboard ripples across the loch. CHAMELEON
Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.
What is happening at Widnes was held up as the model for future logistics hubs across the entire UK. Times, Sunday Times
When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
Vans carrying publicity materials are stopping at junctions across the State.
It confirmed that opera lovers were most likely to spread their favours across the art forms.
There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
In destinations such as Sharm el-Sheikh, which attract willing but poor hands from across the country looking for work, the effect is magnified. Egypt economy awaits its lost tourists
While the St Oswald's unit caters for severe dyslexics, less severe cases are catered for in mainstream education at schools across the city.
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
When Coleman's picture was splashed across every newspaper in the country the next day, the calls began to flood in.
She will spend a week relaxing in the Californian sunshine with a select team of stylists hand-picked from across the globe.
Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
With a flick of invisible fingers it sent a tiny, blood-red stone skittering across the table to Tamani.
Old friends greet each other across the room. Times, Sunday Times
Olson has a magnetism that leaps across the footlights.
We rode hardish (some people would have called it a hand-gallop) most of the way; up hill and down, across the rocky creeks, through thick timber. Robbery Under Arms
A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
I watched her plodding her way across the field.
So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
The core connects to video memory across a 256-bit bus.
The egg extended obliquely backward across the fly's prosternum.
He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
Across the room stood a tower of vinyl albums stacked about 14 feet high.
I shuffled my hospital armchair forward, across the BUPA contract carpet. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
Cable television from across the Atlantic has long dominated our airwaves.
Trim toenails straight across using nail clippers.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
She heard his words, and felt them, a breath across her temple, a deep reverberation in his chest. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
DESPITE his great attacking prowess and capacity to find the net fairly on a regular basis, he does not come across as a penalty taker. The Sun
In the meantime, Mr. Meyer is enjoined from in any way further interfering with the flow of water in the channel from the plaintiffs’ land across his land.
Across the upland above the cliff a ploughman drove leisurably forth and back, and always close behind his heels the earth was white with these birds inspecting the fresh-turned furrow. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
Gwyn continued trudging across the sands as the last rays of light slowly faded to purple streaks across the sky.
The right fork continues westward across the prairie. A Plague of Angels
He knew that just across the border lay freedom.
In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.
Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.
These situations are not hypothetical; they are based on real stories from faculty members across the country.
Dressed in a sheer teddy, a very personable smile painted across her white face, she returns to the stage carrying a small basket.
More than 9,000 manufacturing jobs have been shed across East Lancashire in five years.
The main path in the graveyard across the road from the church will be replaced this week.
A small brown pouch is slung across her shoulder and chest. Times, Sunday Times
The riders, known as scramblers, are illegally riding their motorbikes, quad bikes and scooters across Crane Park and are tearing up the ground in the process.
The trail becomes more precipitous as we plod steadily across a long ridge that is barely discernible from the fog folding around us. Times, Sunday Times
The gallery is approached across a voluminous, rather airport-like atrium that also houses the company's canteen.
Some days she was listless, propped up facing the window, watching sunlight clock across the valleyed bedclothes. Spin
Setting the crossbow on the counter and sheathing his sword, he moved with surprising speed and agility to replace the bar across the door.
Other location filming was under way across half the globe.
Demand is down across the globe as the economic woes continue to stifle growth. The Sun
This finding came about because of one lonely air quality monitor near the cowtown area of western Pinal County, nearly 40 miles and across the mountains from downtown Phoenix," he said. Los Angeles Tops Nation In Air Polution
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
A wide area of coastal plains extends across the western seaboard, a region of phosphate mining and the cultivation of citrus, olives, tobacco, and grains.
Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30
We tramped across the wet grass to look at the statue.
People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.
There was consensus across the political spectrum.
A youth with a white bandana across his face and wearing a baseball cap walked into the store and demanded staff fill up a white carrier bag with money.
A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill. Times, Sunday Times
Back in her room at the Station Hostel, she spread the contents across her bed. CHAMELEON
By a stroke of luck I came across it in a local bookshop.
True, Olbermann and Patrick would also make plenty of references to pop culture, but the references came across as charmingly haughty, as if the anchormen were showing us that they had interests that extended beyond the court or field. The Enthusiast
In support of this they indicate that there have been worries about the ability of the Monopolies Commission to maintain consistency across its investigations.
Early this morning, a blast of freezing rain and ice swept across parts of Georgia and the Carolinas.
Behind them another curtain of hail raced across the sea, embedding itself in the sand, turning the beach a glittering white. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The vote - 110 to 46 in the House and 31 to 8 in the Senate - came as mayors, town managers, social service agencies, and local activists across Massachusetts began to digest the massive cuts the budget proposal calls for, including up to a 15 percent cut in noneducation local aid for municipalities. CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
Push it right across. That's it, lovely.
It's on the fourth floor of a new development (with swanky security gates and a lift!) and from the window you can see right across London to the post office tower.
The heraldic lion across the top is holding a cocoa pod.
This year is now on track to become the warmest on record across the globe. Times, Sunday Times
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
No significant differences were found in the use of marijuana or methamphetamine across rural areas.
While all the other girls' clothes were cute and baggy and slouchy, my pencil skirt and tweed vest fit tight across my hips and butt.
The guest host has their dressing room across from the band, so we were huge fans of Raging Bull and Goodfellas, the Scorsese, Pesci, and De Niro movies. Mike Ragogna: Kryptonite's 20th Anniversary: Chatting with Spin Doctors' Chris Barron Plus Keb Mo and More
Central bank leaders from throughout Africa met in Senegal to discuss ideas about how they better integrate economies across this landmass, which is home to more countries than any other continent. West Africa's Central Bank Governor Promotes Single Currency
Waitrose, for example, has made a real and commendable effort to source sustainable fish and shellfish across the board. Times, Sunday Times
A black coat-tailed drongo like a late night dinner guest is chased across the water by two enraged house sparrows.
Carelessly, she dumped her lunch out, its contents spilling all across the floor.
Working your way across the ceiling widthwise rather than lengthwise, begin painting a series of overlapping W's until the ceiling is mostly covered.
No matter what ruling they ultimately emerge with, there are bound to be some very miffed clubs across the nation.
Hastening across the parapet from the opposite direction was a bowman as young as the man he'd shot. HERE BE DRAGONS
The results of the current study also strengthen claims that psychopathy is a neurocognitive disorder that is apparent across the lifespan.
The Malleswaram market in the new parking complex plan has a basement, ground floor, mezzanine, three floors and a terrace across 70,000 sq ft, as does the Seshadripuram market.
In the four men, this precision borders on caricature, although Abby comes across with strong humanity.
Kartel favors the beat-driven fusion of reggae and rap known as dancehall that has stoked controversy across the Caribbean. Undefined
As though you really are the most inconsiderate people to ever live in the rental across from my home.
A beamy old former fishing boat carried us across to Caldey's landing point on a beach that mirrored Tenby's, and was sprinkled with sunbathers.
A five-day week has found an immediate welcome and much popularity since it was officially adopted across the country.
A veil of acknowledgment swept across her face as she slowly lifted her eyes and shifted her expression to see me.
To be honest, I like the Heath who was caring, affectionate and down to earth, more than the Heath who was pimping practically every girl he came across.
You shut your biology book with a thud, and stared at him from across the table.
Across the land, every night, teenagers are yakking online in chat rooms with friends and Net acquaintances.
An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
As we sit looking across the Thames, he pauses to catch his breath. Times, Sunday Times
Back in the early fifties people across the land followed the Redex trial intently, listening in for updates in the daily news broadcasts from their valve radiograms.

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