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Free sign upThe phrase "across a surface" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe movement or action that takes place over the top of a flat area or material.
Example: "The cat gracefully walked across a surface of freshly fallen snow."
Alternatives: "over a surface" or "on a surface".
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We were running downhill across a surface that was basically a stream posing as grassy hillside.
Random tagging -- casually spraying your name across a surface -- is against the rules at 5 Pointz.
It's as if prose is a horizontal structure, built across a surface, while poetry is a catacomb.
Super-hydrophobic coatings cause water to bead up into droplets instead of spreading out across a surface.
Map-readers through history have relished the anticipation of unfurling a paper map across a surface and poring over its panorama, excitedly homing in on home.
For his part, Djokovic turned grass into clay, treading like a panther across a surface that Andre Agassi, in his memoir, likens to "ice slathered with Vaseline".
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Fold your bandana diagonally in half across a flat surface.
A beam of light acrossed a rock surface at sunrise on a ridgeline just below the summit of Mt. Whitney.
They rolled a ball or car across a hard surface, or rolled each object off the edge of that surface, where they appeared to hover, defying gravity.
Oil causes a file to skip across a work surface.
Dancers also slid happily across a slick surface and bounced merrily on a trampoline.
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