across
IPA: ʌkrˈɔs
noun
- (crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
adverb
- From one side to the other.
- On the other side.
- In a particular direction.
- (crosswords) Horizontally.
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Examples of "across" in Sentences
- This is not invariable across the run.
- The beck runs across the common southwards.
- It is not right to arrogate across others' rights.
- The trail runs across the outback area of Nebraska.
- His first run across the lake was untroubled and fast.
- Is the picture a millimeter across or a micrometer across
- They grew up together, hopping across to each other's roofs.
- The border runs horizontally across the middle of the screen.
- It was bound to happen that you'd run across one of the peevish.
- As the wailing reaches a crescendo, lights go on all across the neighborhood.
- Romantic emails had been exchanged with Jane: Write your name across the sky.
- I know you get asked this all the time but how do brands build a name across China?
- Again, bogs are not infrequently come across -- _across_, by the way, is hardly the word to use.
- "Because," Lovell hastened to say; "because she can't go across -- no, that wasn't right -- why -- ahem! why does a hen go _across_ the road, Miss
- I will rage into light, become a new star in the endless nothing, I will burn the gold of your name across the sleeping hours, and then I will let you go.