How to Use across in a Sentence

across

1 of 2 preposition

• The sun's light spread across the mountains.
• A smile spread across her face.
• She reached across the table to shake his hand.
• We saw them walking across the street.
• Airplanes flew across the sky above us.
• Looking out across the ocean, he saw land.
• We took a ferry across the river.
• They traveled back and forth across the border.
• He was seated across the table from me.
• The accident happened just across the state line.
• The females can grow to an inch long and 2 to 3 inches across with their legs spread.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• The group flew across the country to the town of King Salmon on the Alaska peninsula.
  — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Get outside and enjoy the amenities across 32 acres of open space and woods.
  — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The overall odds of winning a Powerball prize (across all tiers) are about 1 in 24.9.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
• The adversity flew at them like those Stroud laser beams across the middle of the field.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
• The colorful lights strung across your yards bring me joy each winter.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• And the president of the United States and the White House has the ability to help disperse folks across the country.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• As the evening approached, showers occurred across the Phoenix area.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2023
• My 21-year-old had moved across the country and my 17-year-old decided to stay with his dad.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Light bends across the surface to conjure chimeric cities that hover at the horizon.
  — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
• So far this year, Democrats have managed to get seven bills across the finish line — less than 4% of all bills passed.
  — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2024
• But the carport covers Capote has strung across the top of the metal frame have not been in compliance with city code.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• One of the images was of a large pole that had been knocked over in a parking lot and another showed signage spread across the ground at a Taco Bell.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• The most obvious next step would be the opening of a northern front, across the Lebanon border, by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• On Sunday, the faces of both candidates loomed from huge billboards across Turkish cities.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Like elsewhere across the state, there has been a surge in early voting Cuyahoga County ahead of the Aug. 8 election.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 28 July 2023
• One of the trickiest things about shopping for flats is finding one that fits really well, as size tends to vary across brands and styles.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• Cerna said the flow of migrants over the years has left clothes strewn across his 24-acre property and smugglers have broken gates to let the migrants through.
  — John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• In his first start, Olson allowed two runs on two hits and one walk with six strikeouts across five innings against the Chicago White Sox.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023

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across

2 of 2 adverb

• The streams are small enough to jump across.
• They walked across to the other side of the street.
• They reached across and shook each other's hand.
• I saw them crossing the street and I waited until they were safely across.
• At its widest point, the pond measures 150 feet across.
• The rings are about 300 feet deep and half a mile across.
  — Kae Lani Palmisano, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• His run was the first of three the Wildcats pushed across in the inning.
  — Mike Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• The green is as narrow as eight paces across but does widen in the back.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• And the statement doesn’t have to be more than a few words to get your point across.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• The screen is 5 feet across (when laid flat) and nearly 6 feet tall.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Adults can grow up to four feet across with as many as 26 arms.
  — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
• Hold the lumber against the backstop and run the saw straight across and out the other side.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
• Some praised the Grammy-winning singer and shared that the scene still got her point across.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2022
• The seats are well-padded and super wide at 38-inches across.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
• French mandolines have one blade that goes all the way across.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2022
• The island is about 15 miles across at its widest and is home to the Rano Raraku, a volcanic crater.
  — Johnny Diaz, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• The bitterness of this game, though, sits in the eighth and ninth innings, when the Sox couldn’t push the tiebreaking run across.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• There’s no dispute the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass is shallow enough to walk across for much of the year.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• That’s when the fire creeps across on the bottom of the forest floor, cleaning up some old leaf litter.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Ice was packed 8 to 12 inches thick along the length of the city when hundreds flocked to the riverfront to attempt the journey across.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
• As of Sunday, protests over her death have spread across at least 46 cities, towns and villages in Iran.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2022
• They were driven to a river and told to walk across on the rocks, carrying the wounded.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Sometimes simple statements are the best way to get your point across.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2023
• Each shrub will be about 4 foot tall and at minimum 4 feet across.
  — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• The lake is about 6 miles long, 3 miles across and is deep enough to kayak on, McClatchy News reported.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• But what is true is that Moore’s bad-good guys never fully got their point across.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
• Portland got its first run across in the fifth, then added two more in the seventh before putting up seven runs in the ninth.
  — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
• As part of the process, May suggests asking more questions and rephrasing things to get your point across.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2022
• At the narrowest setting, the dance floor was 2.5 inches across.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2023
• The windows are big, the ceilings are high, and the narrow floors receive natural light all the way across.
  — Curbed, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024