How To Use Cross 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
Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.

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On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
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.’
We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage. War
We had to walk across a ploughed field.
The giant cross has become a familiar landmark to generations of San Franciscans.
The loo was in a tin hut across the road. The Sun
This crossword will really tax your brain.
While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
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.
Hold to my hand while we cross the street.
A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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.
With cross-sectional data it is not possible to make precise comparisons between changes in employment and economic activity over time.
Dozens of deep scars and pits ran across the length its snout.
Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
The fuel tanks are self-sealing, with a fuel crossfeed system that provides continuity of supply if one of the fuel circuits fails.
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.
Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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.
Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
The young birds' mandibles begin to cross about two weeks after they fledge, and they learn to extract seeds soon after that.
A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
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.
By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
Foot and mouth disease is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible to humans, but it crosses the species barrier with difficulty and with little effect.
Picture a cross between Machu Picchu and greek acropolis, all tumbled down.
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.
It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky. Times, Sunday Times
Cut the beef across the grain into paper thin slices.
He sped along Bellhouse Road and crossed a mini roundabout diagonally, to the alarm of many pedestrians and motorists.
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
Carefully she clipped the grass the grave and arranged the pinky - white, small chrysanthemums the tin cross.
She planted little kisses across its forehead and it gurgled.
The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.
The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery.
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 exotic flowers we crossbred on the farm never lasted as long as the wild ones which grew naturally.
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.
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
A laddish culture is rife in many universities, and cuts across all social classes. Times, Sunday Times
There must be something wrong with people who can do cryptic crosswords.
Barrett's initial racing experience came in motocross.
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.
Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
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
The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
I checked the chart and found I had crossed off the wrong thing.
I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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.
The hot-cross buns are still iced by hand in the bakery, and the produce comes primarily from local growers in season.
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
If that ocean was crossable then the next one must be too!
There are hefty charges across the board for one-way rental.
Petrocelli Monday afternoon began an aggressive cross-examination after Simpson finished five hours of gentle questioning by his own lawyer Friday and Monday.
The door was bolted, and the woman stood against it, arms folded across her chest.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott. Undefined
I saw wheel tracks to the right, crossed by similar tracks back again to the road, and I guessed that the postilion had intended to drive his horses down the byroad, but having found it too rough or too narrow had been compelled to return, even at the cost of loss of time in backing. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
The biographer must always be doubted, cross-questioned, read between the lines.
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.
The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander. The Perils of Partition
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
But hey, it didn't matter, because we were all having a frabjously great time and arrived at the same crossroad in less than 3/4 time.
Eva completely froze for a moment and a look of panic crossed her face.
They approached the first crossroad and turned right, the road soon becoming smoother and wider as the trees started to thin.
It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge.
The pictures showed that when the water reached a certain speed, it began to break into eddies, waves and cross-currents.
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 young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
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
It was a lovely dog. It was a cross between a collie and a golden retriever.
‘They were criss-crossing the county to deliver the news.
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
The only way to keep that behavior in check is for an informed consumer to not buy their products when a business crosses the line. Apple has a serious transparency problem. : #comments
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
I then knew, by the black cross which I observed on its neck, that it was of the species called aquis, one of the boldest and most venomous of the serpents of that region. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots
Here's the lawn today, with it's stunning criss-cross pattern.
Crosshatch denims, stretch fabrics, chambray denims, and leather thongs are some of the other pieces in the collection.
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.
Kathy crossed the porch, knelt down beside him, pressed the palm of her hand against his forehead.
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
Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
The exhibit will display pictures from his trek across Siberia.
Viewed from Machu Picchu, the constellation we call the Southern Cross, which was also known and of some importance to the Inca, rises on east and sets on west of Salcantay, and at its highest point is directly above the mountain. Exploring the Inca Heartland: The Mountain Gods
You can also schedule defragmentation across your network.
Guess it would have been OK if the discombobulated old drunk had skittled some kid on a zebra crossing.
However, unlike the Buicks of the recent past, the tail lamp is not a single cross-car strip, but simply at each of the corners.
To make matters even worse, sharp needles of pain were shooting across her eyes and the soup felt like lead in her stomach.
We will be reiterating that safety message until the crossing is turned back on.
It is a cross plot of industrial R&D spending on the x-axis and so-called triadic patents on the y-axis. Innovation will get the economy moving
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.
Protein/reporter combinations were generated by crossing transformants.
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
Why cling to the rebel cross?
The Bonanza crossed the runway threshold while the helicopter was still about 250 feet from a planned touchdown point of 1500 feet down the runway.
After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
Bolivian music also uses the charango, which is a cross between the mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
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
The two cross-fertilise easily to form a hybrid, which is apparently often sold to un-suspecting buyers who simply ask for bluebells.
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
This is precisely how astrological ideas cross-fertilise each other and grow.
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.
Get step-by-step instructions for building a cross-compiler so that you can build and develop applications for an alternative platform.
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.
What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
She will spend a week relaxing in the Californian sunshine with a select team of stylists hand-picked from across the globe.
‘They were criss-crossing the county to deliver the news.
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.
This has similar crossover appeal. Times, Sunday Times
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
And August 6, three days after her 18th birthday, Charlotte will make her official society debut at the traditional Red Cross Ball.
Like many of the troops I met during the war, she wore a cross around her neck.
Preserve seed that hasn't been cross-pollinated.
She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window.
All international airlines have similar information, and aviation sites show extensive changes to flight plans by aircraft crossing the area in recent months. Times, Sunday Times
I watched her plodding her way across the field.
So we set about assembling a team of cross-disciplinary professionals including Dr. Patricia Muehsam, on the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical School; Dr. Peter Roche de Coppens, professor of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne in Paris; Dr. Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist who had conducted scientific research in mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine; Dr. J. Manifesting Michelangelo
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

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