English example sentences with "across"

Learn how to use across in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends.

Can you swim across the river?

I ran across an old friend near the bank.

A banking scandal is sweeping across Capitol Hill.

A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill.

The bridge is safe; you can drive across.

The church is just across the street.

The visitor sat across from me.

When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.

The school is across from our house.

Far away across the sea lies the sunny land of Italy.

The flower shop is just across the street.

The mere idea of swimming across the river made me tremble.

As soon as I left home, I came across her in the street.

On my way home, I came across an old friend.

On her way home, Mary came across John.

I can see some people walking across the street.

I saw something very bright fly across the night sky.

The bookstore across from the station is very large.

Swimming across the lake almost finished me.

Clouds are flying across the sky.

A cloud passed across the moon.

Clouds sail across the sky.

A cloud floated across the sky.

A cat ran across the street.

Once across the river, you are safe.

A boy is walking across the street.

Let us go together. We can swim across the river, carry off the bear cubs, take them to the house on the mountain, and together find happiness.

Please take me across the river.

Our school is across the river.

Rod lives across the street from John.

Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic.

A good idea came across my mind.

Mary was able to swim across the river.

When Mary saw him, a look of surprise spread across her face.

You can put five of them across the head of a match.

I came across this book in a secondhand bookstore.

The ball rolled across the lawn.

The ball rolled across the road.

Porters often have to walk across the tracks.

The French are our neighbors across the Channel.

The ferry started to move and we were across in half an hour.

Harry managed to swim across the river.

The bus stop is across the street.

Never go across the street without looking for cars first.

The pipe shop is across the street.

A rat ran across the road.

Nancy greeted me with a nod from across the street.

Nancy ran across an old friend of hers yesterday.

Tom called to her across the street.

Tom walked across the street.

I'm just going across to the flower shop.

It's just across the street from the church.

Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

He was evidently surprised when he came across me.

The old man walked across the road carefully.

The tree cast a shadow across the road.

The sticks were laid across each other.

The store is across the street.

The store is just across from my house.

The store is just across from the theater.

There's a hotel across the street.

Where did you come across the rare stamps?

People, goods and money are all free to move across national borders in the region.

The boat sailed across the Pacific Ocean.

How long would it take to swim across the river?

The river is fifty yards across.

The river is 35 meters across.

There is a bridge across the river.

They run a ferry service across the river.

The teacher found it difficult to get his meaning across to the students.

The lake is four miles across.

The hole is two meters across.

The hole is about five feet across.

The army slowly advanced across the river.

They are building a long bridge across the channel.

Only I was able to jump across the stream then.

John put across a big housing project.

I'd like to drive across the USA in a convertible car.

These two lines cut across each other at right angles.

This old man actually swam across the river.

We often come across Japanese tourists in this area.

Can you swim across this river?

This river is dangerous to swim across.

This river is one mile across.

That bridge across this river is the oldest in the town.

This coat is a little tight across the back.

I'll travel across Europe by bicycle this summer.

Did you come across anyone you know on your way here?

I couldn't get my idea across to the class.

In the Greek football game, the players on one team tried to carry a ball across a line in the other team's territory.

Your meaning didn't come across clearly.

Ann swam across the river.

A 19-year-old Canadian broke the world record last month for a nonstop, round-trip swim across the English Channel.

You can fly across America in about five hours.

I came across him in that store.

He had the impudence to cut across our garden.

Can you swim across?

Your argument came across well.

The impudent child extended her legs across my lap.

The two roads cut across the street from us.

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