Synonym: cover, cross, crosscut, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse. Similar words: put across, get across, across, come across, cross out, gross, prosecutor, prosecution. Meaning: v. 1. travel across or pass over 2. be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations 3. cut using a diagonal lines.
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(31) They fled south along the edge of the plowed field, then cut across toward Highway 18.
(32) They cut across class and gender, though women's groups almost certainly out-number those of the men.
(33) Even while acknowledging such visible community cues, family stories may cut across communal meanings.
(34) Several unexpected developments cut across the early realization of these ambitious plans.
(35) Jagged cracks cut across the thick glass arch over the main entryway.
(36) Salvation Street was on his left, a double row of cottages which cut across the low neck of land.
(37) He cut across to the Maiden, hoping to catch another glimpse of Angela.
(38) There's a network of country roads south that cut across to the coast.
(39) Critics say the project will cut across the Bibi river, cutting off most of the water that feeds the lake.
(40) The rasps are useful for preliminary shaping prior to fine-finishing, and will cut across the grain of timber without tearing it.
(41) Former railroad rights of way cut across river bottoms that used to be littered with bustling towns.
(42) As we return to the school we cut across the large paved parking lot and head for the back entrance.
(43) If he took the short cut across the beck, he would arrive there in a fraction of the time.
(44) He arrived with his sea-chest, a tall, strong man with a cut across one cheek.
(45) Like all Lubavitch ministers,(www.Sentencedict.com) he was eager to cut across barriers of class and prejudice.
(46) It cut across the boundary between the two hundreds and was later centred on the Norman castle at Nether Stowey.
(47) There was little soft snow and the ponies had no difficulty whatsoever negotiating the few small crevasses that cut across the route.
(48) The poll tax cut across this, with its concept of a universal obligation.
(49) The type and irregularity of fracture bears a complex relation to the breaking of bonds in directions that cut across crystallographic planes.
(50) Such motivations cut across different media and remind us again of the extent to which media permeate our lives.
(51) Indeed, a skirt cut across straight at the lower edge would have a distinctly odd look, rather like a box.
(52) As in the Boer War, the issue of peace cut across class lines, opening the way to a political realignment.
(53) Those Work-out teams cut across all kinds of boundaries and departments, as appropriate to the issues being addressed.
(54) The movement for ballot initiatives has cut across party lines.
(55) She died because she took a short cut across waste ground even though she knew that the murderer was at large in that area.
(56) And still others suggest enterprises should start with initiatives that cut across existing organizational boundaries.
(57) There is a short cut across the fields, zigzagging along the boundary banks.
(58) The new social divisions in the rural community tend to cut across the old class divides of the former occupational community.
(59) Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake, they were all ploughed up.
(60) Roll deposits cut across sandstone bedding.