crosshatch
verb
cross·hatch
ˈkrȯs-ˌhach 
crosshatched; crosshatching; crosshatches
: to mark with two series of parallel lines that intersect
crosshatch
noun
Examples of crosshatch in a Sentence
The fields were crosshatched by plowed paths.
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Several expressways, including four major highways and bridges, crosshatch right through the center of the South Bronx to service food-distribution centers, waste-management facilities, and factories, resulting in at least 15,000 trucks passing through the South Bronx daily.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
Sendak’s minutely crosshatched, freewheeling pictures are as familiar and mysterious as the contours of your childhood bedroom in the dark.
—Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Asawa played with looping lines, broken lines, zigzag lines and the short, clustered lines of crosshatching and shading, and ideas just seemed to pour forth.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Griffith, a master of crosshatching, offers a love letter to form and function, line by careful line.
—Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
Wild duck breasts don’t require crosshatching, Wilkins says.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Aug. 2023
Many of Gego’s early works began with the architectural convention of crosshatching.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
After an hour of crosshatching the Tucker Fire’s plume, the sun dipped behind the Pacific Ocean.
—Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for large ensembles, interpolating bebop’s crosshatched rhythms and extended improvisations into lush tapestries.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024
Sendak’s minutely crosshatched, freewheeling pictures are as familiar and mysterious as the contours of your childhood bedroom in the dark.
—Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Asawa played with looping lines, broken lines, zigzag lines and the short, clustered lines of crosshatching and shading, and ideas just seemed to pour forth.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Griffith, a master of crosshatching, offers a love letter to form and function, line by careful line.
—Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
Wild duck breasts don’t require crosshatching, Wilkins says.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Aug. 2023
Many of Gego’s early works began with the architectural convention of crosshatching.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
After an hour of crosshatching the Tucker Fire’s plume, the sun dipped behind the Pacific Ocean.
—Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for large ensembles, interpolating bebop’s crosshatched rhythms and extended improvisations into lush tapestries.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
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crosshatch
verb
cross·hatch
ˈkrȯs-ˌhach
: to mark with sets of parallel lines that cross
crosshatch
noun
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