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Example sentences for "recrossing"

Lexicographically close words:
recrimination; recriminations; recross; recrossed; recrosses; recrudescence; recruit; recruited; recruiter; recruiters
  1. All the British machines returned except one, which evidently had engine trouble and went down under control just before recrossing the lines on the homeward journey.

  2. The Germans bent all their strength toward forcing a recrossing of the Ourcq.

  3. Crossing and recrossing our saddle stock a number of times, we trampled the banks down to a firm footing.

  4. The course of that river was almost due north, and crossing and recrossing it frequently, we kept constantly in touch with it on our last northward tack.

  5. The problems arising out of the crossing and recrossing of these various elements are as yet but vaguely understood.

  6. If it were given us to know the extent of our influence, we should probably be appalled at the crossing and recrossing of the lines emanating from our daily lives.

  7. Chapter XIX Tragedy was abroad that day, crossing and recrossing Williams Street.

  8. And he had lost her, not through any direct fault, but because he was known to have been dissipated at one time; a shadow that would always be crossing and recrossing his path.

  9. The stem creeps [pg127] over the fronds of seaweeds, often crossing and recrossing in a tangled mass.

  10. The tubes are commonly found attached to shells and rocks, usually solitary, but sometimes in clusters, crossing and recrossing each other on the surface of the shell or rock.

  11. Shattered, it is true, but not disheartened, the Army of Northern Virginia after recrossing the Potomac rose like the son of Terra, with renewed vigor, and entered on the brilliant campaign hereafter to be generally described.

  12. A raking tire was kept up across the intervening space over which we had moved in capturing the fort, I was wounded in recrossing to Colquitt's Salient, and many of our men were killed and wounded in making the same passage back to our works.

  13. Going back to the inn, following the mules out to and back from the railroad, crossing and recrossing the river with Billy's supplies, fits of rebellion alternated with moods of black self reproach.

  14. Though the inn's meager accommodations had not been improved by a slap from the wing tip of the wave, he remained there all night in preference to crossing and recrossing the river.

  15. Proverbially sweet is the month after marriage; but the honeymoon, with all its joys, could not have exceeded in bliss those ante-nuptial hours spent by us in recrossing the prairies.

  16. I passed long streamers of white smoke, crossing and recrossing in the air.

  17. Mulattoes are thus frequently obliged to intermix with either pure negresses, or with mulatresses issued from a recrossing with the Negro race.

  18. No traveller or author has spoken of the alliance of Australian Mulattoes between themselves, nor of their recrossing on the parent stock.

  19. But in proportion as a recrossing is effected, the influence of hybridity diminishes, and becomes effaced.

  20. There was little to be seen there but the swaying boughs of the huge tree, but his gaze never left those tossing limbs, and his sentence hung suspended till the movement made by Ransom recrossing the room roused him, and he went on.

  21. He answered as best he could, and was recrossing disconsolately to his chair when voices rose in the hall, and a man was ushered in, whom Gerridge immediately introduced as Mr. Sims.

  22. Recrossing the Tasman Sea to Sydney, we journeyed to Melbourne by rail, the second time also we were in that city.

  23. For many miles the road followed the course of the Conemaugh, crossing and recrossing the river, but without any very striking feature.

  24. After recrossing the bridge we went to the point forming the apex of the triangle, to see the confluence of the two rivers, and, as we could from there look up both rivers and down the Ohio, the view is very remarkable.

  25. Footpaths wind in and out among the graves and trees, crossing and recrossing one another in all directions from one end of the cemetery to the other.

  26. They had not forgotten the narrow escape we had had in recrossing the "big lead" on the return journey from the "farthest north" of 1906.

  27. We had learned that on recrossing the "big lead" in 1906.

  28. This could be done only by recrossing Lookout Mountain, the enemy's army at Lafayette now interposing between us and Thomas's corps.

  29. Harker succeeded in recrossing the river in the face of this strong force of the enemy without any serious loss.

  30. In a rain lasting five hours the column slowly struggled through the dense timber, up the mountain, crossing and recrossing ravines by tortuous ways, and by 1 P.

  31. Wright alternately retired and advanced his army, crossing and recrossing the Potomac, until August 5th, when he was at Monocacy Junction, Maryland.

  32. Now-a-days, ten or a dozen steam vessels, crossing and recrossing within the bounds of the horizon, scarcely attract a glance from loiterers on the shore.

  33. Plants with twisted creepers and tendrils, crossing and recrossing upon the groundwork of golden lichens, covered it with filigree.

  34. Before recrossing the Potomac the troops burned the iron foundry at Shenandoah City.

  35. To the brave officers and soldiers who accomplished the feat of thus recrossing the river in the face of the enemy, I owe everything.


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