How To Use Crossing In A Sentence

Reports of a youth on the line at a level crossing yesterday sparked an alert on the railways.
This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on. The Iron Horse
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
Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.

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.
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
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
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
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
‘They were criss-crossing the county to deliver the news.
Guess it would have been OK if the discombobulated old drunk had skittled some kid on a zebra crossing.
We will be reiterating that safety message until the crossing is turned back on.
Protein/reporter combinations were generated by crossing transformants.
After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
‘They were criss-crossing the county to deliver the news.
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
The delays at the railway crossing would be avoided by creating a new link road.
The first fortnight will see closure of Slade Lane Junction to replace signalling equipment and trackwork, including switches and crossings.
Although his home is currently in Bridge of Weir, most of his time is spent criss-crossing the globe to oversee the Business Network Division's operations.
We traveled daily by the new 727 jet aircraft criss-crossing a country the size of the U.S.
Only by crossing the short bridge can you take in its natural grandeur and the maze of streets that make up the medieval town. Times, Sunday Times
Crossing the busy circle is a difficult task for pedestrians in the absence of a subway.
Training crossing guards to spot and defuse volatile situations is one of the options being explored. Times, Sunday Times
Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged. Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
The next crossing was the Birch Creek Valley, and it was sleeting.
The site gives you crossing times and months of operation, and you can click through to book direct with the relevant ferry company. Times, Sunday Times
Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream.
It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
Keep on until you reach the crossing.
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 had a really rough crossing - I was sick three times.
It takes in 20 wibbly-wobbly crossings, five metres above the ground, then a shriek-inducing zip-wire descent. The Sun
Time zone factors How many zones are you crossing? Beat Jet Lag - arrive alert and stay alert
Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. BookBrowse Previews April Books
He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles.
There are no teachers to check on progress, and only a few mothers at some crossroads to oversee road crossing.
The Ireland voyage was arranged in place of a transatlantic crossing which was cancelled due to ongoing discussions over the vessel's financial problems.
Its final voyage ended in disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937, when it was coming into land after a transatlantic crossing.
I managed to get "Spook" on bookcrossing, so I can now put some other book on my Christmas wish list - I just got my new copy of "Pages" so I'm going to be spoiled for suggestions! Spook/Ghost Hunters (copy)
The train emerges from the foliage and comes to a stand for the crossing gates to be opened.
Crossing genres from lo-fi slacker rock to Greek chillwave, it felt exciting and fresh at the same time as throwing you back into the past in a disorientating timewarp reminiscent of Gold-era Spandau Ballet. The sax is back
China and Russia made a race of the women's pair C final crossing the line within half a canvas of each other - China in front.
Cars are comfortable, avoid dangerous road crossings, avoid the danger of strangers and - not insignificantly in Scotland - they avoid the rain.
Remove completely any canes which rub each other by crossing.
In 1990, Poland's Lucy Krajewska made the first successful crossing by a legless person.
Persistent pupillary membrane is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil.
Whether crossing rural areas or towns, the scenery was always graceful and neat.
He delivered countless lectures all over the world, crossing all the continents and successfully engaging some of the biggest names in Christian evangelists in public debates.
Englishman Simon Chalk will be official record-holder for the fastest rowed crossing of the Indian Ocean after all.
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
But the study expanded to include other possibly useful but obscure bovines of Asia: the madura (a hybrid between banteng and cattle), gaur, mithan, kouprey, anoa, tamaraw, yak, and yakows-hybrids formed by crossing yaks with cattle. Chapter 3
Built on a predominantly straight alignment, with no road crossings, the new line also merges with conventional track, cutting travel times to towns such as Nice, Monaco and Perpignan.
The crossing should safely assist pedestrians to the Victoria Recreation Ground, as well as to a nearby scout hut and nursery.
It is hard to imagine six men crossing the Pacific without any sunburnt backs or peeled noses. Times, Sunday Times
A number of border crossings have now reopened.
However, chromosome pairs would sometimes break apart and exchange pieces - a process known as crossing over.
The moon shines on faraway places and love could be crossing continents to find you. The Sun
Prof. SUTHERLAND: Well, they look very different, obviously, in that they are filled with blots, crossings out into linear insertions. Manuscripts Suggest Jane Austen Had A Great Editor
The crossing would take only two minutes. Times, Sunday Times
A few thought a steamer might hazard the crossing.
Near the crossing of a canal she saw a zanjero turning the water through a new delivery gate into a new ditch, and checking El The Winning of Barbara Worth
I just got so tired of anxiously crossing and uncrossing my legs and looking away from the screen.
Procane will have to invent a convincing reason for crossing the Atlantic -- the first stage of his journey to reach us. COVER STORY
We think it is a realistic proposition to bring a crossing between Kent and Southend, and eventually up the Thames to London.
While most of the work involves street striping and painting, at the Wallace Road crossing, crews will extend the curbs.
This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier.
Eventually (due to a massive diversion along some hairy country roads, and some cows crossing) we arrive at our destination.
He was kayaking in a twenty-four foot craft for seventy-four days attempting the first solo crossing of the Atlantic.
They also face accusations of crossing another line. Times, Sunday Times
His van allegedly struck the two as they were crossing a street.
In explanation the guard said that it had fallen over as the train was crossing the curve at Neville Hill.
Vandrich did a little number, crossing his legs, making mincy hand motions. The Big Nowhere
To ensure that observed chromosome pairing was generally indicative of the species and that there was no difference between selfing and outcrossing, 11 self-crosses and 2 outcrosses were observed.
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
Do not feel that by doing this you are double-crossing Emily Post.
He's crisscrossing down another ski slope to keep his world - record streak alive.
My hat blew off while I was crossing the bridge.
And for that reason perhaps he was better able to cope with what was, for him, only another round of potentially devastating change and loss - from which he could again escape by recrossing the Atlantic.
This means that there should be no material crossing the joint - not gravel stops, not copings, not membrane and certainly not roofing cement - that cannot flex or move with the movement of the structure.
The lower slip, after crossing the cords of the brachial plexus and axillary artery, passed deep to coracobrachialis and terminated by fusing with the tendons of latissimus dorsi and teres major in the bicipital groove.
Flocks were never observed crossing into neighboring woodlots.
Buttonholed while crossing the court-house lawn, and backed into a corner between the county clerk's office and the jail, Shelby had to listen with what patience he might to her denunciation of what she called his vile concord with Belial. The Henchman
Solano has played in all but one Villa game so far this season and has lost none of his skill and crossing ability with age.
The ferry accommodates cars, bikes, wheelchairs, pushchairs and foot passengers and the crossing takes roughly ten minutes.
One way to overcome inbreeding depression is by periodically introducing new genetic variation in a process known as outcrossing, where members of the breed are mated with individuals from outside the breed. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Waters thus defended “informal reduction,” in which molecular models of crossing-over between homologous chromosomes were shown to be explanatory, even though no derivational reduction was involved. Molecular Biology
It is the highest rally in the series, the undulating roads climbing to more than 2700 metres on hillsides awash with cacti, pine trees and river crossings.
TBH I was mainly comparing the traffic patterns of the two streets and the difficulty for pedestrians in crossing them, not so much the relative presence of commerce. Dueling Groups Fight, Support Nickerson Road Diet « PubliCola
The whole thing about crossing their legs and what they should wear. Times, Sunday Times
‘You're forgetting one very important thing,’ implied Tyler, crossing his lean, tanned arms.
It was also decided that caravans, goods vehicles, minibuses or coaches could be charged 25 per cent more for single crossings.
It involves crossing the line that divides political radicalism from iconoclastic mania. IN DEFENCE OF ARISTOCRACY
Both were direct progeny of that parent, and one of these inbreds had additional backcrossing to that parent in its pedigree.
In this form it presumably could be maintained in a population against the tendency to swamping by intercrossing.
Cytogenetic studies of mitotic and polytene chromosomes, allozyme data, and crossing studies indicate that An. dirus A and C are very closely related.
They were crossing from lane to lane, cutting everyone up.
Sure, there are some important achievements, but also many tens of billions have been wasted on absurd military space projects or in imposing requirements on the Shuttle (such as its huge down range) for military manned polar recon missions from Vandenberg only to 15 years later realize an astronaut crossing the Van Allen radiation belts 4 times per LEO orbit (every 90 minutes) was not quite a good idea. Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch
Here, we padded a wall with batting and fabric, then secured crisscrossing ribbons with fabric tacks.
Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
Observe your child crossing the street safely at the crosswalks.
The railroad gates debar people from crossing the tracks.
He couldn't hear or see anyone, so he took the liberty of crossing a name off the paper.
Nebraska State Patrol troopers drove chase cars parallel to the train to stop motorists who didn't obey traffic laws at rail crossings.
As he was crossing the road, a yellow off-road motorcycle, covered in mud, travelled down the street at speed on one wheel.
Residents are battling a supermarket's plans to build a pedestrian crossing in their scenic village.
The fix F suggests that A. is nearly outcrossing while the other two are marly inbreeding.
To get past the border guards, immigrants from Mexico hire smugglers - called coyotes - to guide them through crossing points.
He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching. Sick Cycle Carousel
The enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard cattle boats and sent on horrific transatlantic crossings by evil lairds has been shattered in a new study.
Crossing over The exchange of material between homologous chromatids by the formation of chiasmata.
The chief executive officer has spent much of the past decade criss-crossing the globe pushing the group's food ingredients business, which now accounts for over 70% of profits.
Vehicles merely gain speed near a zebra crossing for the fear of catching a signal and the pedestrians are left dodging speeding vehicles to get to the other end of the road.
Leaning back against the ecru toned, linen textured wall, she contemplated crossing the room to flick the light switch that would bathe the room in harsh fluorescent glare, but dismissed the idea.
the shortness of the Channel crossing
He said they would consider the results but they would be leaning towards providing a crossing on the street.
So, I mean, the bottom is the pop culture crossing over with the political culture kind of goes haywire and goes crazy about sex and sexual scandal. Writing 'The Good Wife': Art Imitates Life?
Crossing over ensures segregation of homologous chromosomes in meiosis I.
It is also quite demanding, as you have to keep crossing a main highway into London. Times, Sunday Times
She reached out and pulled back one edge of an oilcloth drape, looked out across a commercial street, a signal light at a crossing. THE SERPENT'S MARK
The targets may be incoming, outgoing, crossing right-and-left, at different speeds, at different heights, while quartering and dropping at the same time.
The crossing of the Ngoni, one of the biggest tribes fleeing from the marauding impis of Shaka Zulu, coincided with an eclipse of the sun.
We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean.
As we chugged across the Bosphorus we passed a school of ferries criss-crossing the straits in their livery of yellow and white.
To accuse a member of Parliament of double-crossing is certainly discreditable.
But hey, start your evening at Felix, take the Star ferry crossing to the island and head for dinner at the many restos in Lan Kwai Fung.
The passage from Ireland was quite rough with the vessel encountering storm force winds and high seas for days crossing the Bay of Biscay.
Police have now warned that gates guarding the railway crossing should be kept closed at all times to try to prevent a repeat of the tragic accident.
Tongpu Railway and the North Pacific Highway crossing.
This is where the story of the UK's pedestrian crossings gets interesting. Times, Sunday Times
The red peaks dancing across the screen represent insects crossing the laser beam. Smithsonian Mag
As you would expect the ferry crossing was not enjoyable and everyone was in a delicate state.
These felines are hybrids first bred from crossing a wild small leopard cat of Asia with a domestic cat.
In the final sprint for the line Gill timed his effort perfectly, crossing the line with two lengths to spare and saluted the large crowd.
Crossing it on a moonlit winter's night lifted the heart, though that was often the trouble with Oxford - the architecture outsoared one's feelings, the sublime not always easy to match. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
After crossing the border they were abandoned by coyotes or polleros, the smugglers who transported them into the US.
They were wild raiders, on occasion crossing the Yalu in great masses and over-running northern Cho-Sen like locusts. Chapter 15
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Too late they discover that he is an underworld crime lord, and that crossing him results in an inevitable slow and painful death.
They ended Tuareg trade activities, including the collection of tariffs and the protection services for camel caravans crossing the Sahara.
These columns moved forward on the surface of the sea, and the clouds not following them with equal rapidity, they assumed a bent or incurvated shape, and frequently appeared crossing each other, evidently proceeding in different directions; from whence we concluded, that it being calm, each of these water-spouts caused a wind of its own. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
They have enough trouble finding nutri-tious food without crossing meat off their shopping lists.
The stupidities of men go crossing one another; and miles down, at the bottom of all, there is a little veinlet of sense found running at last! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Between cost overruns and long-term upkeep, it will end up costing taxpayers a fortune -- and the illegal immigrants will just shift their border crossings to areas beyond the reach of the fence. David Wallechinsky: The Border Fence: A Work of Art?
Having spent the last week crossing the Mojave, Scott and I were grungier than usual.
In the late 1950s, the arrival of jet airliners cut the time for the transatlantic crossing in half, to not much more than seven hours.
We are crossing borders unimpededly to acquire any information and to contact our friends in distance via internet, the most powerful tool in the 21st century.
The border crossing is marked, not with gates and flags, but with attitude.
At an average speed of 25 k.p.h. roughly how long does each crossing take?
And small blame to it," said the doctor, and went on: "It's a well-made thick head you have, and it's tough you are, my son, not to be killed entirely by such a whack as you got on your brain-box -- to say nothing of your fancy for trying to cure it hydropathically by taking it into the sea with you when you were for crossing the In the Sargasso Sea A Novel
At the same time, she saved the lives of a number of soldiers who were crossing in a flatboat that sank while she and her children were in it.
Brook flows beneath that bridge will a bridal pass churchwards over its span, for there, but for such a crossing, Eadmund the king might have bided safely till Ingvar the Dane had passed and gone. Wulfric the Weapon Thane
In a series of spot checks, police searched buses crossing the border.
Besides the usual culprits that you never fail to blame, the loggers, I have noticed you haven't mentioned how much those Whoppers you so proudly scarf while you cruise the relatively new highways crisscrossing the state as you visit your pals in their quaint villages and enjoying other scenic splendors of that magnificent state have contributed to the massive loss of virgen forests. Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
The lights were installed at three crossings in the summer to promote equality. Times, Sunday Times
Adelaide is the principal city of the state of South Australia (where one sets one's watch back half an hour when crossing the border).
Cut or saw out dead or crossing branches of apple and pear trees. Times, Sunday Times
The red peaks dancing across the screen represent insects crossing the laser beam. Smithsonian Mag
He found the strength and determination to beat 99 of the world's top runners in the The Atacama Crossing ultramarathon, a grueling seven-day and six-night race covering 270 km.
But Network Rail, formerly Railtrack, is concerned that more houses will mean more people using the local unmanned and unmodernised level crossing to reach the town centre and other facilities.
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
“The original ripsnorter,” said the frontiersman, crossing his arms over his brawny chest. Nevermore
They also want crossings illuminated when being used and railway vehicles to have reflective markings.
The child was killed when a car failed to stop at the crossing.
Both men are crisscrossing battleground states they've crisscrossed countless times already.
Crossing several fields, newly mown, or filled with lines of tedded hay, she arrived, not without great exertion, at the summit of a hill. Jack Sheppard A Romance
While you’re crossing this beautiful site, you’re sharing the place with the iguanas, the freshness of the wind, and the magical sounds of the crashing waves.
Be careful crossing the main road.
In California, one state assemblyman has offered a bold new proposal to crack down on the flood of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican-California border.
Plants have many adaptations that increase the likelihood of outcrossing. Pollination ecology of desert plants
Now, you see, _if in the moment of sliding you prepare the bow for the next string, the slide itself is lost in the crossing of the bow_. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
The main crossing points for SPU are currently signalized. Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola
Local authorities appear to have quelled the protests, which erupted last week after a Mongolian herder was killed by a coal truck driven by a member of China's dominant Han ethnic group as a group of herders sought to block a convoy from crossing pastureland. China Says Foreigners Fuel Unrest in Mongolia
Posters will be put up at all of the railway stations, railway crossings, access points and known trespass locations.
So, yes, the teenage 90210 fan in me is crossing her fingers, hoping Green stumbles onto Wisteria Lane so I can start scribbling “Kate + Keith” with gelly roll pens in my Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper. Brian Austin Green on 'Desperate Housewives' makes us desperately happy | EW.com
The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over). October 2009
Two of the works that they acquired were bought as reductions of the previously mentioned Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
Above all, parking must be immediately accessible to functions and must not involve crossing roads or car parks.
Smokers crossing the Irish Sea could find themselves banished to the open decks of all ferries to and from the Republic.
At river crossings, lakes, or narrow peninsulas, trails converge and funnel towards and away from caribou calving grounds and summer range.
He heard the bell ring for the last 200m, kicked, and slowed to a jog after crossing the finish line in first.
All ferry crossings subject to availability. The Sun
But Tony Stewart proved Monday that everybody is a title contender when, days after crossing himself off a list of viable threats to win the championship, he snapped a 32-race winless streak with his victory at Chicago. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
In the case of a crossing split into two crossings by a central reservation each crossing should be classed as separate crossings.
A former gymnast is thought to owe her life to her years of training after being hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing. Times, Sunday Times
Start crossing when the green WALK sign starts to flash.
Each vehicle takes 5 seconds to travel over the crossing.
Fallon also said a largely Iraqi-led security presence along the Syrian border crossing has cut off a major transit route for al-Qaida-linked fighters, who are predominantly Sunni.
At most junctions, the crossing time is just a few seconds. Also, vehicles, especially two-wheelers, begin to move even before the signal turns green.
A detail of the crisscrossing threads of a recently handsewn jacket is shown here. Tailor-Made in the U.S.A.
With a fair wind it's a four hour crossing to the island, distinguishable from surrounding islands thanks to the casuarina trees planted by the Portuguese.
The queen closed her eyes with a prayer of thanksgiving, quickly crossing herself as she rose to her feet.
We eventually cruised at 54,000 ft, about 20,000 ft higher than you'd normally achieve on a typical transatlantic crossing.
Edith relaxed, sinking back into her chair, crossing out something she had written on her notepad and exhaling.
While we're on the subject of payment, Perle stands to collect another $600,000 upon consummation of the Global Crossing deal.
He set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon.
For the urban poor, the storm waters bring a unique opportunity to angle for fish in the swollen canals criss-crossing the city.
The crossing lay as the en-chantress had promised, a row of flat boulders spanning the dark rush of current like footings of an incomplete bridge. Stormwarden
So, any American crossing over to Moscow who reaches Helsinki is safe. COVER STORY
At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.

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