Example sentences for: intersecting

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

  • Further to the comment in the review of the 20th Century Brewer [ XVIII,4 ]: Hashbury is a derivation from the names of two intersecting San Francisco streets: Haight and Ashbury .

  • Whereas the nucleus of Florence was built to a strict Roman city plan of straight streets intersecting at right angles, Siena has all the Tuscan hill-town’s haphazard organic forms, straggling up and down a forked ridge of not one but three hilltops.

  • Within the walls are a few intersecting main streets whose tile-roofed shops and houses now serve as souvenir shops, private travel agencies, hostels, and — above all — small, intimate, friendly cafés serving a truly international mix of inexpensive dishes.

  • Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication, and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel, a masterpiece of Guarini’s High Baroque, with its cone-shaped, six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star.

  • You can think of it as two intersecting incomplete egg shapes, one of which is the body of the pot and the handle of its lid and the other of which is the protective collar.


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