Example sentences for: crossed

How can you use “crossed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.

  • Male Wnt-1 TG mice (a mixture of FVB, SJL, and C57BL/6) were crossed with Pten heterozygous females (a mixture of C57BL/6 and 129SvJ) to generate all three genotypes used in this paper: Wnt-1 TG, Pten +/-; Wnt-1 TG, Pten +/+; and Pten +/-.

  • In exchange for the reinstatements, the union agreed not to impose fines or other sanctions on the 4,000 UAW members who crossed picket lines during the 1994-1995 strike.

  • pretzel the position of a prisoner immobilized by being handcuffed behind and, with his knees bent, having his crossed ankles shackled; used in subduing particularly unruly prisoners.

  • He's crossed the line.


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