VERB
- cut using a diagonal line
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be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines -
travel across or pass over
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
How To Use cut across In A Sentence
- Not long after we left home we noticed a car following us with its lights turned off and so we cut across a park but about three men followed.
- I could see dust motes in a shaft of light that cut across my cubicle.
- We wandered along in the other direction until we came to the Imperial golf course which we decided to cut across so we could see the canal.
- I cut across the large green, following Kyle until he stopped suddenly and sat down on the lawn.
- If we cut across the field, it'll save time.
- The doors of his room were flung open onto a beautiful garden and the harsh spring light cut across his bed. Times, Sunday Times
- This indurated metamorphic rock and its tectonic fabrics are cut across by several centimetre-scale cracks infilled by undeformed quartzitic matrix.
- He gazed longingly up at the immense, empty sky that cut across the nearby horizon through the naked trees and began tramping through the snow towards it.
- Not only would the road pass close to their home, it would cut across the leafy private lane leading to the luxury barn conversion.
- Ramsey the Liberal politician had ideas of democracy which cut across this benevolent dictatorship.
