Sentence example with the word 'crosswise'

crosswise

across, bias, choking, counterproductive, crossways, hulky, interrupting, obstructive, repressive, strangling, transverse, unwieldy

Definition adv. not in the intended manner

Last update: June 30, 2015

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A blue flag with a red bands going crosswise from top left to bottom right.   [Please select]

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The planks were of wood, often beech, a few inches wide, and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood, or " sleepers," placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.   [Please select]

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"Oh, things went crosswise here, you see," she answered, "but somewhere else, who knows."   [Please select]

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Besides, he seldom, if ever, sits crosswise on a perch; no, he is an inveterate creeper.   [Please select]

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The loon came to the surface holding the fish tightly crosswise in its beak.   [Please select]

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"There's Squire Anderson coming down crosswise and bumping everything in reach."   [Please select]

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Most of our wood, however, we lay crosswise, and almost horizontally.   [Please select]

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The bazaars run criss-crosswise; any way at all save parallel, and anyhow but straight.   [Please select]

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Up and down, and crosswise, it continued to write its message, that was doubtless like printed letters to Paul and Jack, while unintelligible to those who had never taken lessons in wigwagging.   [Please select]

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4, 5, 6, 7, 8, are the holes through which the String pass to fasten the round pieces which pass Crosswise the Canoe to Strengthen & lift her.   [Please select]

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