across from

idiom

: on the opposite side from (someone or something)

She sat (directly) across from me at the table.

The restaurant is (just) across from the high school.

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Just across from the Bell Tower was a video game arcade called The Oz, where hits by Prince and Madonna battled with the waka-waka sounds of PacMan. —

Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 Directly across from Il Ristorante is Sangkar, a traditional Indonesian restaurant specializing in spicy flavors, like sambal, the ubiquitous Indonesian chili paste. —

Ryan Smith, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2024 The incident occurred just after 4:30 p.m. outside Philadelphia’s Christmas Village, an open-air holiday market located across from City Hall. —

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024 Teen Vogue reports that organizers set up banners on the ground in front of Johnson’s front door and another in the bathroom right across from it, and as they were quickly carried off under arrest, wrists in zip ties. —

Lex McMenamin, Them, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for across from