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Example sentences for "uncrossed"

Lexicographically close words:
uncovers; uncreate; uncreated; uncritical; uncritically; uncrowned; uncrystallizable; unction; unctions; unctuous
  1. Paul uncrossed his legs and prepared to put the clay away.

  2. Mr. Samson blew out his breath windily and uncrossed his thin legs.

  3. He dropped his hat on the floor, crossed his legs, uncrossed them, and then observed that it was pretty summery weather for so late in the fall.

  4. He leaned forward and uncrossed his legs.

  5. The leader hands a closed pair of scissors to her accomplice, who takes it and says: "I received these scissors uncrossed and I give them crossed.

  6. Miss Collins uncrossed her knees, and looked up.

  7. He uncrossed his legs and brought his foot down with a bang on the floor.

  8. The audience moved, drew its breath, crossed and uncrossed its knees, spat its tobacco quids upon the floor, and craned its neck to see her better, to hear more distinctly what she had to say.

  9. Who bends to happier duties, who more wise Than the industrious Poet, taught to prize, Above all grandeur, a pure life uncrossed By cares in which simplicity is lost?

  10. He uncrossed his feet and sat up a little.

  11. It stood there, uncrossed by lights or footsteps or sounds, keeping its secret well, even from him who knew what it contained.

  12. Reversion to lost Characters by pure or uncrossed forms.

  13. With uncrossed breeds the same result would follow, under conditions which favoured the multiplication and development of certain dormant gemmules, as when animals become feral and revert to their pristine character.

  14. The white colonists and their uncrossed descendants belong for the most part to Anglo-Saxon or Germanic peoples in North America, and to Neo-Latin peoples in South America.

  15. In nearly everyone the tracts remain uncrossed to some slight extent.

  16. In some so much of the pyramidal tract remains uncrossed that there may be decided weakness on the same side as the lesion in the brain.

  17. So much for your rotten pessimism,” he snarled at Michaelis, who uncrossed his thick legs, similar to bolsters, and slid his feet abruptly under his chair in sign of exasperation.

  18. He uncrossed Charlotte's arms and lifted up her head.

  19. Valmeras gently uncrossed his hands and raised his head.

  20. These latter cases, however, relate to uncrossed species, like those before given with respect to Passiflora, Orchids, etc.

  21. With uncrossed breeds the same result follows, under conditions which favour the multiplication and development of certain dormant gemmules, as when animals become feral and revert to their pristine character.

  22. By this method of lacing the lace is not crossed on either side of the belt, which is desirable, because it is found in practice that a crossed lace does not operate so well as an uncrossed one.

  23. The officer crossed his arms, then uncrossed them and stuck his fists on his hips and threw back his head, so did the monkey.

  24. Capi uncrossed his paws, went up to his master, drew aside the sheepskin, and after feeling in his vest pocket pulled out a large silver watch.

  25. Observe what takes place when the sled is steered to the left: The distance AE decreases much more rapidly than AF, and when the crossed ropes have lost all their power, the uncrossed ropes are still useful.

  26. If the ropes were not crossed, the rope would lie along the dotted line BD, whose lever arm is the distance AF, which is always greater than AE, therefore the uncrossed ropes have more leverage.

  27. For an uncrossed belt, the quantity L in equation (32 B) is to be made constant.


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