Across use in a sentence for each word

Sentences for across. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use across in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for across.

• Dryfoos looked across at his son. (9)
• Look at that one across the street. (13)
• Not a boatman would take me across. (10)
• Let not Dr. Shrapnel come across him! (10)
• She pressed her hand across her eyes. (10)
• Diana felt a hot wind across her skin. (10)
• She rose at once and came across to Gyp. (8)
• I came back on foot across the mountains. (8)
• He laid his whip-lash across the mares flank. (8)
• He was down and across the roadway at leaps. (10)
• He was lying across the bed, and the door shut. (8)
• And a flash of cunning zigzagged across his brain. (8)
• She spoke of sending across the Park to fetch June. (8)
• As the door closed, Fort came right across the room. (8)
• Mela sent a yelling laugh across the table to her mother. (9)
• On across the lawn he went, up the slope, to the oak-tree. (8)
• Our conductor soon led us out of the lane and across country. (2)
• A sharp stroke on the side of my neck sent me across his body. (10)
• Dew had not yet fallen, and he took the path across the fields. (8)
• Outside, a drooping elm branch swept softly across the glass pane. (13)
• She swung just out of reach and looked down at him across the pool. (8)
• As a youth, you took this love across the Alps to Padua and Bologna. (5)
• And turning, she suddenly passed the back of her hand across her eyes. (8)
• A roebuck rushed down one of the hills, and scampered across the sward. (10)
• Reckless of the cold, he threw his window up and gazed out across the Park. (8)
• Robert walked across the fields, walking like a man with an object in view. (10)
• Dudley Sowerby followed Nesta closely: he struck across the path of the Rev. (10)
• And stretching his hand across the table, he took hers and pressed it tightly. (8)
• I saw cars running on all the lines as I came across; it made me sick at heart. (9)
• Only across the landing now, into the bedroom, and then the danger would be over. (8)
• A window of the hotel, high up, was lighted; he saw a shadow move across the blind. (8)
• Their way was down a green lane and across long meadow-paths dim in the moonlight. (10)
• The elms swayed softly in the night wind, brushing across the window by their side. (13)
• Across his half-hypnotized consciousness little threads of burning fancy kept shooting. (8)
• Over the pine-hills beyond the station a last rosy streak lingered across a green sky. (10)
• Her eyes were bent on a particular box, across which a curtain was hastily being drawn. (10)
• Jolyon saw the figures of Holly and Val Dartie moving across the lawn towards the stables. (8)
• Across the wide, squat window the apple branches fell in black stripes which never stirred. (8)
• Farina drew the arms of the holy combatant across his shoulders and descended Drachenfels. (10)
• It flashed across him that he had something of importance to do before he went out of town. (8)
• A childless Clara tragically loving and beloved flashed across the dark glass of the future. (10)
• Across the field in a shady and sheltered spot the ashen cloth of the circus barber shop shows. (21)
• When she is gone, Strangway passes his handkerchief across his forehead, and his lips move fast. (8)
• She brushed herself, and went tiptoeing across the gravel and the little front lawn, to the gate. (8)
• The attack, which was made upon an unknown position and across unfamiliar ground, was led by our brigade. (1)
• It was while receiving this embrace that Hilary saw Mr. Stone and the little model returning across the garden. (8)
• After taking her elderly cousin across, Fleur did not land at once, but pulled in among the reeds, into the sunshine. (8)
• He stated the terms, which were hardly less than the affrighting ones blown across the Irish sea by that fierce party. (10)
• I should rejoice to see you, all of you, dead, that I might walk across you safe from disturbance to get to him I love. (10)
• She freed it and taking up the table-cloth folded it lengthwise and then across, and laid it neatly away in the cupboard. (9)
• If this man were persecuting her with his attentions, why had he not gone across when she was standing at the picture-shop? (8)
• It fell across the floor, near the foot of the bed, and he watched it moving ever so slowly towards him, as if it were alive. (8)
• She caught the slipper from the shoeman and harried it on; she tied the ribbons across the instep, and then put on the other. (9)
• The shadows of the clouds passing across the vines were vanishing over the jumbled roofs and green-topped spires of the town. (8)
• We were now well across the line that separates the Orient from the Occident, and within touch of Constantinople and Athens. (20)
• A heavy wall joined the two wings on the street side, and through the iron gates the Park could be seen, just across the street. (13)
• He saw the pain of her position shooting across her brows, and, uttering-gentle inquiries as to her health, placed her in a seat. (10)
• The walls, distempered rather a long time ago, were decorated with water-colour sketches; across the ceiling meandered a long crack. (8)
• Winton, smoking his after-breakfast cigar, stared down across the tops of those trees toward the river and the wooded fields beyond. (8)
• Coming back across the burnt-up grass, strewn with paper bags, banana peel, and the cores of apples, he hooked his hand into her arm. (8)
• Instantly, and without a good-bye, she scrambled up her skirts and ran at strides across the road and through the wood, out of sight. (10)
• Starting and looking up, she saw, across the lobby she had just reached, Edmund himself, standing at the head of a different staircase. (4)
• Aminta drove her questioning heart as a vessel across blank circles of sea, where there was nothing save the solitary heart for answer. (10)
• They went every afternoon to the Lido, where a wheeled chair met them, and Mrs. Lander was trundled across the narrow island to the beach. (9)
• He looked more good than ever; a little perplexed frown had climbed up with his eyebrows and got caught in the wrinkles across his forehead. (8)
• A little after two I struck across the Mimente, and took a rugged path southward up a hillside covered with loose stones and tufts of heather. (2)
• The morning was rather favourable, though it had rained all night, as the clouds were then dispersing across the sky, and the sun frequently appeared. (4)
• Weisspriess followed them across the mountain track, keeping at their heels, though they doubled and adopted all possible contrivances to shake him off. (10)

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Definition of across:

• across, a-kros’, prep. or adv. crosswise: from side to side. (0)

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Synonym: attain, chance on, chance upon, come over, come upon, discover, encounter, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, meet, resonate, run across, run into, see, strike. Similar words: across, get across, put across, cut across, cross out, gross, come at, come about. Meaning: v. 1. find unexpectedly 2. be perceived in a certain way; make a certain impression 3. come together 4. communicate the intended meaning or impression 5. be received or understood. 

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1. Perhaps I shall come across him in France.

2. Why don’t you come across to our house this evening?

3. You must have come across some real characters, working in the circus.

4. I’ve never come across anyone quite like her before.

5. This is the worst place I’ve come across.

6. These themes come across very strongly in the novel.

7. Your speech didn’t come across; nobody understood your opinion.

8. I perhaps come across him tomorrow.

9. He’s the most unpleasant man I’ve ever come across.

10. We must hang in whenever we come across difficulties.

11. Come across to my office this afternoon.

12. Be careful when you come across the street.

13. I hoped she’d come across with some more information.

14. The robber told the woman to come across with her purse.

15. Let us know if you come across anywhere that has something special to offer.

16. I never remember having come across a man like that.

17. Anna approached several builders and was fortunate to come across Eddie.

18. We’ve just come across an old friend we haven’t seen for ages.

19. By pure accident he had come across the very man who could solve the mystery.

20. The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .

21. We still hope the company will come across for us.

22. Turn up your dictionary when you come across difficult words.

23. You should come across the river with us. Then you will really see what’s what.

24. They worked him over because he hadn’t come across with the information.

25. I don’t think he’ll ever come across with all the information.

26. He spoke for a long time but his meaning did not come across.

27. The papers were stored away in a secret place[sentencedict.com](sentencedict.com), and there they will probably remain until they are come across by someone who realized their importance.

28. He spoke for a long time but his meaning did not really come across.

29. He owes me five pounds but I doubt if he’ll ever come across .

30. He spoke for a long time but his meaning didn’t really come across.

More similar words: across, get across, put across, cut across, cross out, gross, come at, come about, by no means, at home and abroad, come home, sacred, crop, toss, crops, crowded, at a loss, mean, possible, morose, each, beach, reach, react, teach, overcrowded, prospect, teacher, preach, the same as. 

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