Sentence examples for cross arms from inspiring English sources
'cross arms' is an expression used in written English
You can use it when you want to show a gesture of someone crossing their arms in a particular situation. For example: "The man crossed his arms as a sign of disagreement with the speaker."
First, it was used for the entire disc of his halo, later only for the cross arms.
In this same panel, the tilting technique reappears (in the cross arms of Christ's halo)—another indication of the retrospection inherent in late Byzantine art.
He reverted to the earlier plan for a church with four equal cross arms instead of the more conventional Latin cross plan.
Two metal walkways cross arms as they reach out into giddy nothingness, and you need to keep your nerve if you intend to walk the full 42 feet to the end of each, especially when it wobbles.
Late-summer visitors to grape farms who look straight down a Geneva Double Curtain row will see that the vine wood and luxuriant vegetation are trained both to the left and right over wires, supported by cross arms that are four feet apart and five or six feet above the ground.
The dimensions of the cross arms are 10 × 80 μm.
By using the composite cross arm in place of a steel cross arm with ceramic insulators, considerable reduction of transmission corridor is achieved.
Clenched fists, crossed arms — military.
Candles flicker in a valley of the dead as bodies lie with crossed arms.
Might that explain Sally Field's stoic yet haggard pose, her crossed arms and her rictus fortitude?
Whatever it means, with crossed arms and a wink, she cuts a sassy figure.
