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Example sentences for "crosstown"

Lexicographically close words:
crosspiece; crosspieces; crossroad; crossroads; crosst; crosstrees; crossway; crossways; crosswise; crost
  1. It was not, however, until the next afternoon that she took the elevated train to Ninth Street and then the crosstown car over the city.

  2. Far off on one of the crosstown streets a newsboy was calling an extra--hoarse, unintelligible shouts that froze his blood.

  3. The storm was so vicious that he boarded a crosstown car at Forty-second Street.

  4. By and by they got into a crosstown car, and it was when Win was being helped out by the lion tamer that a motor dashed past.

  5. When the car had well entered the crosstown Seventies it swung eastward a half block and stopped before a row of high-stooped, brownstone-front houses.

  6. Danny caught a crosstown car and went up to the rear flat that his labor supported.

  7. The recent Mr. Scotty from Death Valley has got you beat a crosstown block in the way of Elizabethan scenery and mechanical accessories.

  8. But within that minute a crosstown car had stopped directly in front of the cab.

  9. The frozen snows of January still lay like adamant in the crosstown streets.

  10. One evening Rudolf was strolling along a crosstown street in the older central part of the city.

  11. At Forty-second, Lawrence paused a moment or two, waiting for the stream of crosstown traffic to pass.

  12. A crosstown car was just getting up speed as he dashed across the street; and with some difficulty he raced forward and swung himself aboard.

  13. The pickpocket gave his name as James Williams and his age as thirty-eight, but declined to tell where he lived, what occupation he followed, or what excuse he had for angling after other people's personal property on a crosstown car.

  14. Aboard that crosstown car Looms did really take a watch from Hartigan's pocket.

  15. From the Hudson Tubes the visitors followed their guide crosstown again, and after walking a few blocks they again crossed City Hall Park.

  16. I thought we were going to take one of these cars," exclaimed George, looking at a crosstown trolley.

  17. At the foot of every crosstown street is a bonfire of sunset.

  18. Hundreds of vehicles were pouring up and down, in endless streams, while two calm policemen halted the moving processions, from time to time, to permit the crosstown cars and teams to move in their several directions.


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