WordNet
adv. extending throughout an entire nation; "nationally advertised"; "it was broadcast nationwide" [syn: nationally, nationwide, across the country]
Usage examples of "across the nation".
Each of these squads is to go out across the nation in search of these monsters, to destroy them wherever they are found.
All across the nation, from border to border, sea to sea, various groups of different ideological persuasions were breaking away and setting up little communities, sure their way was the right way—.
The book heralded reform movements not only in New York, but across the nation.
The assassinations of April 25 all across the nation appear to be his work, engineered through the Mafia.
A convivial and highly articulate man at the best of times, years of dominating conferences and campaigning across the nation had honed his natural abilities as a speaker he had reached a stage where he could have recited the alphabet backwards and still held his audience spell-bound.
Surely the goddess must find her acceptable, surely Astarte would now turn her countenance upon the children of Opet, spread her wings across the nation in this time of trial and danger.
After the short-lived euphoria of Munich, people across the nation had found themselves awakening to the sober realization that they did not feel reassured of having bought peace in their time, and that shame and guilt had not been appeased.
At first, the great migration of the Cherokees and the Creeks that followed had been hailed across the nation as a stroke of political genius on the part of the Monroe administration.
And just as his own Marine helicopter would be readied nearby to spirit him away to the subterranean second White House burrowed deep in a Virginia hillside, Dilman knew that fallout shelters across the nation would be manned for the ultimate signal of war imminent.
If I had dragged her halfway across the nation only to neglect and entirely botch her upbringing, would she have laughed?
That exciting discovery skyrocketed USAMRIID scientists into headlines across the nation.
It was with great shame and indignation that we saw you on TV and read about you in the papers, traveling across the nation and eating mound after mound of innocent, profaned and desecrated animal flesh in an atrocious attempt to show the public that you, too, are just an ordinary, fun-loving pig murderer.
Regrettable sacrifices had to be made, not only here but in almost every diocese across the nation.
When he reached Liverpool he quickly discovered that supplies were rightly not getting priority over tanks or men when it came to movement, so he requested that his ministry should operate a fleet of its own vehicles, with no purpose other than to distribute food supplies across the nation.