The phrase "a friendly cross" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe a cross that is associated with friendliness or a positive connotation, possibly in a religious or symbolic context.
Example: "The church displayed a friendly cross at the entrance, welcoming all visitors with its warm design."
Alternatives: "a welcoming cross" or "a cheerful cross".
Mercer's lyrics are known for jazz- and blues-influenced vernacular, and in the Bean, I was treated to a friendly, cross-cultural mix of people along with my spicy roll-up.
An assumption about Americans and their pets on her part, a friendly crossing of borders, I decide.
The hSAGEing tool provides a combination of friendly cross-tissue analysis and an interface for comparing SAGE libraries for the first time.
Still, between yakking with sports talk radio in Kentucky and with Boomer and Carton in New York, there was Cory Booker sitting in the lap of the Newark Bears mascot Wednesday morning and then jumping around the auditorium stage at the Ann Street School of Mathematics and Science like a kid-friendly cross between Tony Robbins and Richard Simmons.
With docile domestic investors and a network of friendly cross-shareholdings, there was little outside pressure to restructure.
One Tuesday morning, a friendly school crossing guard asked a young boy, probably no more than 8 or 9 years old, "How are you doing this morning?" The boy, adorable and slightly disheveled, sighed and said simply, "One down, four to go," sounding more like a much older, overworked man than a fourth grader.
Frank Bielec, a designer from Katy, Tex., is a bearlike, viewer-friendly cross between Christopher Lowell and Captain Kangaroo, who describes his design philosophy as Jack the Ripper meets Holly Hobbie.
Summary: SPREAD is a user-friendly, cross-platform application to analyze and visualize Bayesian phylogeographic reconstructions incorporating spatial temporal diffusion.
Mr. Milosevic, almost friendly, cross-examined the detective for close to two hours but was unable to dent his story.
Under friendly cross-examination, Mr. Bramwell said that Mr. Sharpton would approach the families of black youths who had been killed and offer to pay funeral expenses.
Then she left to walk the route, meeting up with a friend along the way, passing commuters heading to the train station, middle-school kids whose classes start earlier than hers, neighbors with dogs and friendly crossing guards.
