ACROSS in a Sentence

Learn ACROSS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for ACROSS, such as:
1. The boys swam across the lake.
2. We strode across the snowy fields.
3. She shone at him across the table.
4. A snake slithered across the grass.
5. She danced and twirled across the room.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ACROSS
across
 ad.  to the opposite side
 ad.  transversely
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  It is powerful cold down here, Ethan assented; and with lowered head he went up in his wife's wake, and followed her across the threshold of their room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  His wife's retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews and he felt suddenly weak and powerless.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  She shone at him across the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  "Now let go," he repeated; then he shouldered the trunk and carried it down the stairs and across the passage to the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  As they drew near the end of the village the cries of children reached them, and they saw a knot of boys, with sleds behind them, scattering across the open space before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Chimney swallows were darting swiftly across the yard, and chickens, ducks and turkeys were waddling and strutting and straggling in from the fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There is considerable variation in ability across the range.
2  The only access to the city is across the bridge.
3  The only access to the farmhouse is across the fields.
4  The United States and Canada may enter into an agreement that would allow easier access to jobs across the border.
5  Sailing across the Atlantic on a raft was an adventure.
6  The boys swam across the lake.
7  She danced and twirled across the room.
8  The truck skidded sideways across the road.
9  A dog darted across the road in front of me.
10  The streetcar was derailed by a stone lying across the rails of a track.
11  We strode across the snowy fields.
12  A snake slithered across the grass.
13  Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.
14  The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast.
15  He plans to barnstorm across the state to generate public support.