What is "across"

Usage examples of "across".

Total longitude between Gibraltar and the Sea of Azov is accurate to half a degree, while across the map as a whole average errors of longitude are less than a degree.

I know that the Accursed Forest is a remnant of the wild order that once spread across all of Candar before the Firstborn.

The acroterion is cast in the reclining form of a pretty young man, hands bound above his head, ankles bound as well, and a gag tied tightly across his mouth.

From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.

During the day, camera crews of CBA and affiliated stations across the country had sought public reactions.

Sure enough, Lila had booby-trapped a couple of drawers by affixing a strand of hair slyly across the crack.

There were daubs of yellow and green paint across his jeans, and a freckle of alizarin crimson on the bridge of his nose.

Across the chamber, stripped of his state collar and muffled under the half-shucked folds of the alizarin and gold ducal surcoat, Bransian launched into interrogation.

The allosaurs too went into steep decline across the supercontinent as their prey animals became scarce.

Behold A warrior, than his sire more fierce and fell, To find you rages, -- Diomed the bold, Whom like the stag that, far across the vale, The wolf being seen, no herbage can allure, So fly you, panting sorely, dastard pale!

The wind had dropped, and he could see only an occasional line of dust clouds racing across the flat alluvial plains.

When this result is accomplished, the old curve is deserted, sand bars are formed across their mouths, which may gradually grow to broad alluvial plains, so that the long-surviving, crescent-shaped lake, the remnant of the river bed, may be seen far from the present course of the ever-changing stream.

The area covered by the dot became a small delta of alluvium from one of the canyons with a few trees scattered across it.

Traveling at night to avoid the daytime temperatures reaching 135 degrees, they passed through the gap between the chott and the sea across the alluvium and sand dunes to Kebili.

Van Effen stabbed the button and less than two seconds later, deep and muffled like a distant underwater explosion but very unmistakable for all that - to anyone with normal hearing, the sound must have been audible up to a kilometre away - the reverberation from the detonating amatol rolled across the square.