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Example sentences for "crosswise"

Lexicographically close words:
crosst; crosstown; crosstrees; crossway; crossways; crost; crotch; crotched; crotches; crotchet
  1. The space is filled by parallel and crosswise bars placed at equal distances, and on the triangles thus produced point de reprise is worked.

  2. It is begun in the corner or crosswise of the space to be filled.

  3. In all such patterns the colours introduced are part and parcel of the fabric and in direction run crosswise in the texture.

  4. A section of the dial or ribber, as it is often called, is shown crosswise at D with the cams at CB1.

  5. To repair a large hole in a knitted structure the usual way is to patch by cutting the broken part out in the form of a square running directly crosswise with the loops and directly vertical with the wales of the fabric.

  6. If the question of take-up be ignored for the moment, let the yarns be inserted as weft threads crosswise in the fabric and we shall have in 1 in.

  7. Even minor variations in yarn tension will cause these crosswise defects in the cloth, and they are so minute in their formation that it is almost impossible to repair them.

  8. The knitted fabric cannot be so exactly described because the plain stitch is in reality a weft fabric having its threads inserted crosswise in the texture and termed courses.

  9. If it extends itself crosswise (panjang melintang) it is a bad sign.

  10. Four or five limes (limau nipis) are taken, the ends cut off, and each lime slashed crosswise on the top without completely severing the parts.

  11. The stalk must be skinned, cut crosswise and left attached to the rib of the celery.

  12. As the fire catches, lay on other pairs of sticks, each pair crosswise to the pair that is below it, until you have a pyramid of flame.

  13. Then lay two other sticks crosswise on top of your first pair.

  14. Remove the pulp from lemons for pies and other uses by cutting them lengthwise in the middle of the sections and scraping each side of the membrane, or by cutting the lemon in halves crosswise and taking the pulp out with a spoon.

  15. Stewed Cucumbers= Pare cucumbers, cut into halves lengthwise, crosswise also if long.

  16. He makes a streak crosswise on the man's forehead, vertically on his cheeks, and across the chin.

  17. A succession of logs, laid crosswise with faggots between them, will also do, but not so well.

  18. A noose may be set in any place where there is a run; it can be kept spread out, by thin rushes or twigs set crosswise in it.

  19. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

  20. A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

  21. A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

  22. A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.

  23. A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise.

  24. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.

  25. Cut crosswise of the roll making slices half an inch in thickness.

  26. Cut the bananas in halves crosswise and roll in the chopped nuts until well coated.

  27. No pains had been taken to carry away or saw through trees, which had fallen more than a year back crosswise over the road; the carriage was obliged to make a considerable deviation through the woods to pass these fallen trees.

  28. Two new fortifications are to be built outside of the Narrows on rocks, in order still better to defend the entrance to New York, by firing crosswise at vessels, and are intended to serve as advanced posts to Forts La Fayette and Tompkins.

  29. The following baskets are made from the broad leaves of the yucca, woven or plaited crosswise in a very simple manner, and wrapped at the rims with leaves of the same plant.

  30. With two heads opposite, handle crosswise between them; serrate bands around the necks; figures of birds on the body.

  31. A flat drum, made by stretching goat-hide over a wide hoop, and tightened by lacing crosswise around the edge with a cord of the same hide.

  32. So expensive of time and effort was the production of books by this method that many of the manuscripts now extant were written crosswise on sheets from which the previous writing had been largely erased by chemical or mechanical means.

  33. Then arose the practice of erasing as much of the writing from old books as could be done, and writing the new book crosswise of the page.

  34. Ran had no time to use his spear, but neither was the big fish able to get away, for as soon as he jerked against the strong bow-cord, the piece of bone turned crosswise and its sharp points stuck firmly in his throat.

  35. Later on they made a tool something like a hoe, by fastening a sharp piece of stone crosswise at the end of a stick, and used this to loosen the ground for planting the grain.

  36. Matting should be swept with especial care for cracks and edges, and crosswise of the breadths as far as possible.

  37. As the chicken lies breast up, make a short crosswise slit in it a little distance from the tail.

  38. For this purpose stout wooden stakes or truncheons are sunk crosswise in the earth, and between these the rope is carefully strained.

  39. It is much the same with the Chinese books, except that the columns of reading matter extend downwards on the page from top to bottom and not crosswise to the page as in other languages.

  40. The writing on these rolls, as on those made of parchment, was in columns, crosswise at convenient intervals, with a margin at the top and the bottom of the columns.

  41. Within they are divided lengthwise by a partition, and then crosswise by several partitions.

  42. Piece of a stem of Soft Maple, of a year old, cut crosswise and lengthwise.

  43. Then, if the family be large and all the meat is to be used, the slices may be cut lengthwise; but should only a small quantity be needed, cut crosswise and only from the small end.

  44. In serving, divide through the breast from the neck down, and serve half to each person; or if a smaller portion be desired, divide each half crosswise through the breast, leaving the wing on one part and the leg on the other.

  45. Her feet were protected by sandals, the thongs of which were wound crosswise up her legs, and secured by a leathern garter at the knees.

  46. They danced in the ruined cloisters, beneath a chandelier made of two sticks fastened crosswise to the vaulted roof, bearing four candles, while the church lamps burned upon the altar, and tombs lay beneath the dancers' feet.

  47. At the beginning of the siege the escape-ladder suspended crosswise below the windows of the second story had been removed by order of the Marquis and placed by the Imânus in the library.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crosswise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    across; athwart; awkward; bias; biased; bulky; choking; clumsy; contrary; crisscross; cross; crossing; crosswise; cumbersome; diagonal; hulking; impractical; inconvenient; inhibiting; inhibitive; oblique; obstructive; perverse; ponderous; repressive; restrictive; sideways; slant; stifling; strangling; suppressive; thwart; transverse; traverse; troublesome; unhandy; unmanageable; unwieldy