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.

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