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Example sentences for "crisscrossed"

Lexicographically close words:
crisping; crisply; crispness; crispy; crisscross; crisscrossing; crissum; crista; cristal; cristall
  1. Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.

  2. The trails of old and new in its experience crossed and crisscrossed at every point, causing a long succession of eccentricities which endeared themselves to the minds of the oldest inhabitants.

  3. Half-doubts and half-beliefs crisscrossed and interlaced at every point.

  4. Darkness had settled in earnest, and it was no easy task to pick up the trail in the scrub among the crisscrossed trails of the free traders, especially as the boy did not dare to strike a light.

  5. The toboggan was left at the edge of the swamp and the two entered and plunged into the maze of rabbit paths that crisscrossed the snow in all directions.

  6. Little veins crisscrossed his gaunt cheeks like streams on a map.

  7. The only decoration consisted of crisscrossed garlands of shiny green paper bits, evidently ambitious of being considered vine leaves, which twined about the bare gas brackets and fell over hooks in the walls.

  8. Dim red fire, in lines and dots and curves, appeared on three sides, growing larger and longer, meeting in some places, crisscrossed by black figures of threshing men belaboring the flames.

  9. They would snatch up a pistol here and a musket there and fire out at the water that was crisscrossed with the red flashes of the answering shots.

  10. The long, black-fringed line she had noticed the day before loomed closer; overhanging this crisscrossed region of canyons.

  11. Slone had entered a wonderful region, the like of which he had not seen--a high plateau crisscrossed in every direction by narrow canyons with red walls a thousand feet high.

  12. In his own mind he decided that the dormered roof, crisscrossed by naked branches, which he could see from his window at the Hunt Club, covered the Penniman house.

  13. For months Judith's soul had been crisscrossed by passions and burdened by secrets.

  14. Old Guadaloupe crisscrossed the ground like a bloodhound as he read what was written there.

  15. For in those days, before the barbed wire had reached Texas and crisscrossed it with boundary lines, the cowboy was a fence more mobile than the wandering stock.

  16. You must imagine this province of Vermont as overrun by Canadian soldiery; as crisscrossed by military roads and strategic railways; its hills and mountains abristle with forts whose guns are turned United Statesward.

  17. The burning oil blazed across the fringe of a carpet and suddenly the interior of the tent was crisscrossed with fire.

  18. We were in a large crater, whose bottom was crisscrossed with cracks.

  19. Cracks crossed and crisscrossed the surface, and Peter and he had to bound across many of them.

  20. Tropical marshes prevailed, crisscrossed by mighty rivers at warmer than blood heat.

  21. The man's broad chest was seamed and crisscrossed by literally hundreds of tiny lateral scars, some long healed, and some fresh incisions.

  22. And they stepped out into thin sunlight, onto a hard surface of reddish ground that was crisscrossed with innumerable rounded furrows like the tracks old-fashioned, fifty-passenger airplane wheels used to make on soft landing fields.

  23. As it advanced, the great tail stirred up a cloud of reddish dust, and left behind it a round deep depression in a surface already crisscrossed with a multitude of similar depressions.

  24. Jan went over the Churchill trail, and then swung southward along the Hasabala, where the country was crisscrossed with trap-lines of the half-breeds and the French.

  25. Noteworthy public improvements have been made in places like Zamboanga and Joló, but the country of the hill people, which ought to have been crisscrossed with trails long ere this, is still not opened up.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crisscrossed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.