Example sentences for: crossing

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

  • In spring and autumn, storks, buzzards, and other soaring birds fill the skies as they climb in the rising thermals before gliding across the strait on their annual migration, congregating here where the sea crossing is at its shortest.

  • On March 15, John Stokes piloted his tractor-trailer in front of an Amtrak train at a rail crossing in Bourbonnais, Ill.

  • Queen Elizabeth II, who had been criticized for not crossing her arms to hold hands with her husband Prince Philip and Prime Minister Tony Blair for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" in the Millennium Dome, was vindicated Monday by the tabloid Daily Mirror , which said that arms are not supposed to be linked until the last verse of Robert Burns' poem, which starts "And there's a hand, my trusty fere [friend]."

  • Across the street stands a moving monument to the two million Irish immigrants who fled starvation and oppression crossing “the bowl of tears” to seek a better life in Boston.

  • Charles Lindbergh's crossing wasn't just a stunt: It made real the idea of transatlantic air travel.


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