How To Use Crossed In A Sentence

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.
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
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
He sped along Bellhouse Road and crossed a mini roundabout diagonally, to the alarm of many pedestrians and motorists.

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
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
Eva completely froze for a moment and a look of panic crossed her face.
It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge.
Kathy crossed the porch, knelt down beside him, pressed the palm of her hand against his forehead.
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.
She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window.
On June twenty-fifth, nineteen-fifty, North Korean soldiers crossed the thirty-eighth parallel.
O'Sullivan never had the distinction of guiding a senior team to glory in the top division but his athletic tutelage of any team that crossed his path was legendary.
We had one last taste of bauera as we crossed a gully to the adjacent ridge which saw us safely down.
This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.
They crossed from one side of London to the other.
As all watched, Maelgwn crossed the sand, knelt before Llewelyn, and swore an oath of homage and fealty to the Prince of Gwynedd. HERE BE DRAGONS
Somehow we got our wires crossed because I'd got the 23rd written down in my diary and Jen had the 16th.
Two strands of thread are crossed over the desired area and pulled taut, cutting the hairs in perfect symmetry. The Sun
I crossed myself, I greeted the priest, I kissed his hand, and my father understood.
Although the two ships crossed paths several times on the return voyage, they never made contact.
Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
Besides, the aragonitic shell is made up of two oriented layers: an irregular spherulitic prismatic layer and a fine complex crossed lamellar layer.
When she asked what it was, I responded ‘Homemade marshmallows, roasted peanuts and cocoa nibs enrobed in dark chocolate’, a dark mood crossed her face.
At the local level, one's home represented the center as well, a microcosm of ordered space. 31 One of the adages recorded by Sahagún, otimatoiavi, otimetepexiuj, "thou hast cast thyself into the torrent ... from the crag," is said of someone who has crossed into the periphery with his or her behavior, one "who has placed [themselves] in danger ... who brings about that which is not good. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
The epidemic threshold has been crossed in two administrative units (Guli in Blue Nile State and Wad el Heleu in Kassala State).
For auld lang syne, my dear... `If it were me,' he said as we crossed the park, `I'd be crossing continents; I'd leave no stone unturned. RESCUING ROSE
We were driving most unaggressively across a small plaza, with a driver and a friend on the box beside him to help keep us from harm, when a trolley-car came wildly round a corner at the speed of at least two miles an hour and crossed our track. Familiar Spanish Travels
Continuing to keep your arms crossed tightly over each other, raise them to chest height.
A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
They had been driving through rain-drenched jungle for the last twenty minutes, and had seen nothing since the apatosaurs crossed the road. Jurassic Park
The fine line between warm friendship and hot love could be crossed. The Sun
For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.
Ariane's eyes looked over to Frayne who had yet to speak, he stood firm with his arms crossed.
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
The pain, agony and exhaustion were replaced by an enormous sense of achievement and relief as they crossed the finishing line.
Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions.
North of the Arno was a wide tract of marshland, which had to be crossed before the Apennine mountains could be reached. The Red Book of Heroes
The Savage family consists of a bunch of stubborn hayseeds that get real angry when crossed.
As we crossed the Baltic in a shared ship's cabin, my mother watched to make sure I brushed my hair and teeth morning and night and chastised me for wearing clothes that were too creased or skirts that were too short.
The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line
Silvanus sat back and crossed his fingers as if taking a curative catnap; ‘we go from life to life; place to place.’
They wore chaps criss-crossed with scars from needle sharp cactus, their hats were badly weathered, having survived many suns, winds and rains.
By that single, fluid act, a barrier had been removed, a bridge had been crossed.
We pushed past the steward, re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building.
She had crossed this road before, deftly robbing Peter to slip a rubber cheque into Paul's back pocket.
Angrily, he grabbed the first thing that came to hand (a wooden spoon), crossed the room in three strides and walloped Simeon as hard as he could.
He uncrossed his arms and picked up a small water pot.
Turning suddenly, she crossed her arms on the mantelshelf and hid her face in them. MURDER MOVES IN
Had the Li family been double-crossed by a once faithful employee?
Joe Grue successfully ran the jack of hearts, crossed to the ace of hearts, and led the king of spades in the hope of felling a doubleton jack in the South hand. Netherlands win at home
He stopped and crossed his eyes, his expression conveying abashment.
Suddenly the coach crossed the central reservation and collided with a public light bus travelling in the inner lane of the eastbound carriageway.
The margin where they have crossed has also widened recently. Times, Sunday Times
Selected individuals of this hybrid were intercrossed, and some crossing with the native chestnut was done. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
Without her I wouldn't have the mental image of Dick Cheney decked out like Rambo with a belt fed machine gun in one hand, and bandoleers crossed over his ripped chest, standing in the city street in front of some WW2 tanks. Tired of pink men.
After breakout, battalion crossed Seine near Mayenne. Steel Victory
After a while, we crossed a dry gulch, Horse Creek, and turned off into a patch of Grasslands the Forest Service proposes to keep roadless.
And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe's.
I stood over him, arms crossed, a thin smile on my face.
But dianthus, like orchids, are easily crossed among the species, and as a result we can enjoy varieties fall, winter and spring.
The top part of the frame still hung naked, an intercrossed cage of steel. The Fountainhead
Vivian Foley crossed to Ger Foley and his twenty yards shot hit the crossbar but fell to the feet of Gary Doyle who scored the opening goal.
Fairly simple, it's a noble who promised a necklace to someone but the maker double-crossed him, took his money, and kept the necklace, claiming he sold it to the man and the man had lost it.
Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place.
They essentially amounted to a crude pre-emptive strike designed to forestall any leadership challenge and the natural targets were those with whom he has crossed swords in the past.
The aircraft would have crossed this jet stream at a shallow angle which would have resulted in considerably reduced ground speed.
He knew the man -- H'yemba, the cunning ironsmith, one who in other days had before now crossed his will and, dog-like, snarled as much as he had dared. Darkness and Dawn
Then one day, he noticed that a mare, a stallion and a foal had crossed the fence into the park.
Lucy walked up the fight of steps; the plate glass doors slid open electronically as she crossed the beam.
The mountains looming far to my right, the West Alps told me we had crossed into France.
The hill shows evidence of very old farming terraces and sheep pens and is criss-crossed by walks that the owners have cleared and replanted with many varieties of indigenous ferns.
Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.
There was some practical knowledge in mountainous areas in some of the provinces where Brown Swiss cows had been crossed with zebu cattle, and also [changes thought], but very little concerning other possible cross-breedings. Fidel Castro Addresses ICA on Livestock
He went off in hoots of laughter again, while Mina crossed her arms and glowered at him.
Keeping along the river bank for some miles, I found its general course to be about N.W.; and seeing clear downs beyond the right bank, I crossed, and proceeded towards the highest clear hill on the horizon. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Returning I crossed the top of the mountain and halted awhile to admire the glorious sunset afterglow.
Secondly, job security has also crossed traditional class boundaries in the last twenty years.
Some experts fear the disease may have crossed the barrier between species again.
Something has crossed our lives so that we are about to lose foothold in the public world of common sense.
Marcus straightened from his crouching position and crossed the space between them.
As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
The first wave of troops crossed the bridge, and soon the air on the far side was thick with ordnance - artillery shells, mortars, bullets.
Football may not yet (fingers crossed) be about to lose one of its favourite sons to retirement. Times, Sunday Times
By midnight we had crossed the Ghadaf and the quag felt too awful for further progress. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The landscape which preoccupies me happens to be in its nature fairly geometric, like the triangular gable of a roof, the crossed bars of a gate or the circular shape of an oil drum head on.
At about 07:30, just after the troops had crossed the drift, they formed a hollow square formation comprising 4156 whites and 1152 blacks.
Yet inserting a cheeky clause had fleetingly crossed his mind. Times, Sunday Times
Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom.
The world is criss-crossed by a thick network of links, but this is only one part of reality.
She placed the lantern in the boat and coaxed the pig aboard as it had crossed the river many times with her before.
He crossed his well toned arms as looked her up and down, and made no move to hide his snicker.
Two things crossed my mind. The Sun
Brian crossed his arms and reclined in the passenger seat.
At this critical point, rumors circulated that Sitting Bull had recrossed the Canadian line bound for the Yellowstone hunting grounds.
She noisily chewed on her gum, stomping to the seat adjacent to mine, not bothering to reply until she'd settled comfortably with said boots crossed upon the desk.
Having double-crossed his criminal associates in Glasgow, he returns to the Midlands with a bag of stolen cash, determined to win back Shirley and his daughter Marlene.
After beating Andre Ooijer the Frenchman crossed for Silva to finish at the far post after bombing forward.
He double-crossed the rest of the gang and disappeared with all the money.
‘It's not your fault,’ I said as two altar servers crossed the tile and a priest slid out from the sacristy.
She uncrossed her legs
As the others crossed their fingers and held their breath, he gently eased away the back plate.
Shann had written her name, then crossed it out, then written it again in tiny letters above it, then crossed that out.
Figure parts a-e with crossed nichols. (a) Micrographic groundmass surrounds feldspar phenocryst fragment. (b) Micrographic groundmass around clinopyroxene phenocryst. Granophyre_photos.html
This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
He had respect for them, even as he respected the grizzly and the rattlers that his trail crossed.
When a male tiger is crossed with a female lion, there can be an offspring called a tiglon.
They crossed the Pacific by ship.
But oil crossed into new territory in Singapore trade this afternoon, with TAPIS crude hitting $67.44 US a barrel.
The terrain is bumpy, crisscrossed by steep elevations and ridges not running parallel to the river and bisected by numerous ravines.
This clearly has something to do with a failure to "remap" your body schema to take your crossed hands into account, but that can't be the whole story as single taps are easy to get right even with crossed hands. New Scientist - Online News
uncrossed" when they are closed, and that the player who started the game crossed his feet if the scissors were crossed and, if not, his feet were uncrossed. School, Church, and Home Games
And just before the excitement of the first try had died the lads from Mount Lavinia crossed the opponents line again to knock the stuffings out of Royal.
OK, hopefully the thought has crossed more than my mind that this whole Obama-mania is in a word, Messianic. The Buzz at Ben’s Chili Bowl - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before, but emotionally he had crossed a frontier.
A devious grin crossed his face as his clear grey eyes twinkled with amusement.
Robert Deposada, a GOP operative from the failed Bush Presidency, has crossed a critical line this week by developing and placing ads urging Latino voters to stay home and not vote during this important election cycle. Mario Solis-Marich: Suppression of the Empire -- Robert Deposada's Adventure
When our paths just crossed, we gave polite hellos and tight-lipped smiles and then continued on our ways.
A spasm of pain crossed his normally tranquil features.
KUWAIT _ Unarmed Iraqis in civilian clothes crossed into Kuwait for the second time in as many days Monday and removed equipment from a disputed naval base Baghdad considers within its own territory, a U.N. official said. ANC Daily News Briefing
A faint smile crossed the Monsignor's face and faded quickly.
But her arms soon uncrossed, falling to her sides when he held up a brand new stroller, a small smile coming to his face.
The tops of the legs are headed by weird lions' masks making a meal of acanthus leaves and the background is criss-crossed with a diaper pattern.
We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
Jason snorted in derision and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly.
My car is booked for a Warrant of Fitness tomorrow, so let's all keep our extremities crossed that it passes with no big repair jobs.
Archbishop Sancroft was led to attempt a similar Comprehensive Scheme, so terrified was he at the dominance of the Roman Church in the Second James's reign: however, William's accession, and his becoming a nonjuror, crossed his design. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
We came to a stream and crossed it on a tree trunk some one had flattened with an adze.
However, it remains my belief that one should strive for pith and subtext once one has crossed that gate.
Those who crossed into Kansas after the governor's proclamation and endeavored to continue actual inhabitancy, were with difficulty distinguished from those who now crossed for the first time, under a similar pretext. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics
Such a person has surely crossed the threshold of blameworthiness, both in conduct and in the accompanying fault.
Contenders include 'defriend' when pals are crossed off internet social networking lists. The Sun
His withdrawal to the second line of duty crossed up the whole arrangement.
A similar incident took place at the 2000 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim when a spectator wandered around the course and crossed the track in front of oncoming cars.
Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Many religious practitioners create altars that are associated with crossed practices.
Fingers crossed that I get Tuesdays off and I could race home for Monday night games.
Aleman-Diaz added that his 'muchacho' crossed the border into Mexico and was robbed. SplicedFeed
I crossed the hall and went into the den, fetching an old-fashioned glass and the bottle of Cutty Sark.
I couldn't walk, so my father brought me and crossed the river, at the border with Cameroun. Karin Badt: A Screaming Man at Cannes: Chad Director Speaks About Failed Fathers
Next Maddy crossed the room to the light switch and used the dial to dim the lights.
Also, in the process, aspects of people's social world that are particularly important to them, but that might not even have crossed the mind of a researcher unacquainted with it, are more likely to be forthcoming.
It looks like the FCC hasn't crossed the rubicon (hasn't yet broken this Obama promise) but it looks like it's being considered. Marvin Ammori: Comcast Can Censor This Blog Post ... With FCC's Permission?
Those who have crossed him describe the experience ruefully.
Puzzled anger at the sudden uproar crossed Henry's face, but his wife spoke first in clipped tones.
Two strands of thread are crossed over the desired area and pulled taut, cutting the hairs in perfect symmetry. The Sun
Its insignia was two alembics with spouts crossed against a benzene ring.
Makeshift wiring criss-crossed walls painted in psychedelic colours. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Copyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto Layton's district in Toronto was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my homeland. Boing Boing: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004 Archives
We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli. The Hawaiian Archipelago
But, star-crossed lovers as we are, fate has cruelly intervened and given us tickets for different days.
A charming effect was produced by a guard of honour, composed of members of the golf club, holding aloft crossed brassies, beneath which the happy pair passed into the church, while the caddies clashed niblicks and other iron clubs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
Just before the puck crossed the blue line, Bergevin flicked a one-timer through a screen and under NHL - National Hockey League - Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota
On the form of one applicant, some classroom enemy or irresponsible jokester had crossed out "lawyer" or "teacher" or whatever safe bet the kid had written down, and inserted instead - clearly in another hand - the word "gigolo". BBC News - Home
She crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out at him, pouting again.
I squashed the idea as soon as it crossed my mind.
After our star-crossed trip to Paris, my timekeeping became meticulous. MAN AND WIFE
At first Swiss police thought the Frenchman, who crossed the border each day to work in restaurants, was a passionate art lover who became a compulsive thief to realise his dream of owning a private art collection.
Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
The car mounted the kerb on a bend and crossed on to the other side of the road where it hit the Citroen van.
As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option.
Thence I marched to Changachelling, first descending to the Tengling river, which divides the Catsuperri from the Molli ridge, and which I crossed. Himalayan Journals — Complete
But I think I've crossed some sort of irretrievable line here.
crossed forks
I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke. The Skrayling Tree
His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism.
After I dropped them off, I took a ride. I saw 2 jackals skulking up the road and an unidentified fox crossed in front of me.
A holiday jet carrying 220 passengers was forced to abort its take-off when another plane crossed the airport runway on Sunday.
Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the tide that is swirling about the buckled patent leather pumps of Mr. Speaker sweeps him and her away down the Thames like so much noxious mephitic effluent. They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
Despite having to get used to American spellings she quickly took to the game, and continued to play on board an ocean liner as she crossed the Pacific to visit more cousins in Australia.
A gleeful grin crossed his face.
Tweed walked out into the overcast Place Bel-Air and crossed a bridge spanning the Rhône. COVER STORY
He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa. Chapter 14
One end of the upper stone was fixed to a pivot and both stones were ‘dressed’ with small diagonal grooves which crossed each other at an angle as the upper stone swept across the lower in an arc.
His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs. A History of New York
The army crossed the frontier in the middle of the night.
Both men are crisscrossing battleground states they've crisscrossed countless times already.
The thought never crossed our minds that someone could walk into our house at night to terrorize us.
A stricken look crossed her face, and the danger to her and Bella really struck home.
All the birds funneled through a narrow corridor and crossed the Equator within a ten-day period in early October.
The founding member of the organisation said a male cob was mowed down as it crossed the road.
Both of her arms crossed each other across her chest, the daggers she held lay lazily over her shoulders on each side.
Huge blocks of pale turquoise were set off by strips of lemon yellow hems or belts, and oversized rainbow stripes crisscrossed the body on dresses and shell tops.
Four F 1 males and 37 F 1 females were intercrossed and 1000 F 2 birds were hatched.
She was not sure whether a rill was a fountain or a stream, so she decided, as there was no dictionary convenient, to think of it as like the creek where it crossed the road at the foot of Red Hill. Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters
On the ship on which I crossed there were seamen who had been torpedoed three times In its submarine warfare the enemy has broken every international and human law -- has used "frightfulness" to its fullest extent, and the answer of our merchant seamen is to go to sea again as soon as the ship is ready, and the older men, who had retired, return to sea. Women and War Work
I walked leisurably down the village street, then crossed the hedge and doubled back on the high moors. Wandering Heath
Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind. NYT > Home Page
The trio are believed to have crossed the border into nearby Venezuela as soon as they shook off a heavy police escort that protected them on the journey from prison to the outskirts of Bogota.
The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
The first wave of troops crossed the bridge, and soon the air on the far side was thick with ordnance - artillery shells, mortars, bullets.
The timekeepers were unable to separate the world record holder and the Jamaican, after the pair crossed the line shoulder-to-shoulder in 7.58s.
He lifted the chair, turned it, sat down, his tattooed arms crossed on the backrest. DESPERADOES
I have love love loved addictive Lip Venom, and Nordie’s for years and I am bleedin dismayed that they have betrayed me and crossed over to the Crap Side. 'Twilight'-inspired fashion hits Nordstrom | EW.com
Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line, the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.

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