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crosswise example sentences
crosswise
1. I put them crosswise so they completely covered over the piece that was separate from the other piece, the little piece that made up the rest of the circle
2. White and yellow lines were painted in a crosswise pattern along the walls pointing towards the solid door
3. Still struggling against the crosswise surge that threatened to pull him with it, Mashu grabbed at her other arm and they dragged her up the hill as the eager-looking water licked at their heels for longer than Zoran thought they could possibly run
4. Remove stems & slit brinjals crosswise without cutting all the way through
5. Chris put his index finger crosswise to his nose, it came away bloody, so he pulled one of his new handkerchiefs from his pocket and pressed it to his nose to try and stem the bleeding
6. Cut the onion in eighths: First, cut it from the top to root into quarters; then cut each quarter in half crosswise
7. Half bacon crosswise and slice the two pickled gherkins lengthwise
8. Wipe beef with a damp paper towel and cut the steaks crosswise into 6 equal
9. He found it carefully carved, in the requisite three-inch Arabic numbers, into a beam running crosswise at the aft end of the forward cabin
10. That day they gathered up some unusual specimens from these fish–filled waterways: anglerfish whose comical movements qualify them for the epithet "clowns," black Commerson anglers equipped with their antennas, undulating triggerfish encircled by little red bands, bloated puffers whose venom is extremely insidious, some olive–hued lampreys, snipefish covered with silver scales, cutlass fish whose electrocuting power equals that of the electric eel and the electric ray, scaly featherbacks with brown crosswise bands, greenish codfish, several varieties of goby, etc
11. Among others I noted some long–finned albacore, a species in the genus Scomber, as big as tuna, bluish on the flanks, and streaked with crosswise stripes that disappear when the animal dies
12. Among bony fish, I noted grizzled wrasse unique to these seas, deep–water gilthead whose iris has a fiery gleam, one–meter croakers whose large mouths bristle with small teeth and which let out thin cries, black rudderfish like those I've already discussed, blue dorados accented with gold and silver, rainbow–hued parrotfish that can rival the loveliest tropical birds in coloring, banded blennies with triangular heads, bluish flounder without scales, toadfish covered with a crosswise yellow band in the shape of a Τ, swarms of little freckled gobies stippled with brown spots, lungfish with silver heads and yellow tails, various specimens of salmon, mullet with slim figures and a softly glowing radiance that Lacépède dedicated to the memory of his wife, and finally the American cavalla, a handsome fish decorated by every honorary order, bedizened with their every ribbon, frequenting the shores of this great nation where ribbons and orders are held in such low esteem
13. It’s inserted crosswise directly through the axle’s end, where it stays securely in place until manually removed
14. They laid two stout poles on the ground, parallel, then placed boards crosswise on the poles
15. Which was enough: no one with his wits wanted to get crosswise of her
16. It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing his filed teeth to the Indian's: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on the floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the low carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship
17. There lay the fixed threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own
18. Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise upon the loom or handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out
19. Frost accordingly departed to the dining-room, with great strides of his bowed, muscular legs, and, after some walking backwards and forwards, deposited upon the drawing-room table a large punchbowl, accompanied by a ten-pound sugar loaf supported on three students’ swords placed crosswise
