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Example sentences for "cross road"

  • In a short time we were in sight of the house, and at a cross road I told the corporal to take one man and stop there, until further orders, and if any rebel came along, to capture him.

  • We struck a cross road, and followed it for two or three miles, when I called a council of war, with Jim.

  • But in most cases the bodies of suicides and murderers were buried at a "cross road," with a stake driven through the corpse, to prevent its ghost rising to frighten or harm innocent people.

  • Under judicial examination, witches have confessed to having met the devil at his Sabbaths, the meetings always taking place near a cross road, upon a dreary moor, or beside a lake or stagnant pool, on Wednesday and Friday nights.

  • XVII The change from the drab surroundings of the King's Cross Road to Mrs. Lambert's pretty house in South Kensington made Alexandra feel as though she had escaped from purgatory.

  • It's a long way from the theater to King's Cross Road.

  • They climbed to the top, and were rattled and jerked in the direction of the King's Cross Road.

  • The celerity with which she was whirled from the affluence of Piccadilly and Regent Street to the grimy purlieus of the King's Cross Road had a disheartening effect upon her.

  • Murderer’s Cross Road: a name to be whispered.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cross road" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also claimed; applied only; books bound; clean napkin; cross between; cross over; cross road; cross sections; cross stitch; cross the; crossed himself; crossed over; crossing himself; crossing over; else will; former times; great name; hands clasped; human need; modern industrial; progressive motion; rural community; shall describe; show himself; that her; twelfth century