Sentence examples for across takes from inspiring English sources

But because I am a sucker for wordplay, I kept going back to 29 Across: "Takes the big cheese down to size?" When I filled in GRATES, I was properly humbled by the brilliance of that clue.

He's been to the camps, been over the huge refugee camps near El-Fashir, so far spread that a fast helicopter flight across takes three minutes; and been down, through the flies, into the tents, with the smells and the fears and the faint faint hopes.

Getting your message across takes practice--and training.

She reached across, took his hands, wept, then closed her eyes.

Don't overdo it, though, or you might come across as "taken".

The icy core, or nucleus, is about 4km across and takes 12.4 hours to rotate.

While the trip across only takes one to two hours, it's a hazardous journey.

First, the strongest refractory period to evolutionary change across ontogeny takes place when organogenesis begins during the early zygotic stage.

The journey across northern Morocco takes 12 hours by road.

In what forms would "difference" take across these countries?

Now they're taking across eight or nine.