Crosswise Sentence Examples

Crocodiles are caught in various ways, - for instance, with two pointed sticks, which are fastened crosswise within the bait, an animal's entrails, to which is attached a rope.

The planks were of wood, often beech, a few inches wide, and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood, or " sleepers," placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

The crosswise courses of the greater rivers result from the rivers being older than the mountains, which indeed have been produced by circumdenudation.

Among those Desmidiaceae which live a free life, two plants become surrounded by a common mucilage, in which they lie either parallel (Closterium) or crosswise (Cosmarium).

Central design of four stamped palmettes set crosswise in an impressed frame.

A thickness of approximately 1/3 inch works well, and you can slice lengthwise to make treats for larger dogs or crosswise to make treats for smaller dogs.

Patterns can run lengthwise or crosswise along the ring, depending on the couple's preferences.

A captain of landsknechts, Fabian by name, holding his long pike crosswise, brought it down with all his force upon the opposing spears, and at the cost of his life made a narrow gap through which the French broke into the mass of the enemy.

A fire was kindled at the bottom of a deep hole in the ground, big sticks were laid crosswise at the top, and meat was hung from them and turned on spits.

The planks shouldn't have filler, and ideally they should incorporate layers that run crosswise in the middle to increase strength (bamboo floors are made by gluing strips together).

On all the accepted forms there are two or more flanges at the bottom, running lengthwise of the plate and crosswise of the rail; these are requisite to give proper stiffness, and further, as they are forced into the tie by the weight of passing traffic, they help to fix the plate securely in place.

The flowers are regular, with four free sepals arranged in two pairs at right angles, four petals arranged crosswise in one series, and two sets of stamens, an outer with two members and an inner with four, in two pairs placed in the middle line of the flower and at right angles to the outer series.