crosses someone's mind

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Practicing good hygiene isn't always something that crosses someone's mind as a potential problem when they want to live with their friend because they would expect them to do that anyway.

The only time that has ever crossed someone's mind was when we were in the process of breaking up.

Though olfaction may not be the first part of the nervous system to cross someone's mind when it comes to how we understand the brain, it is actually one of the most complex and diverse systems of an organism, and there's a lot to understand within it, says Pelin Volkan, an assistant professor of biology and neurobiology and investigator in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

In the year we had the coldest winter on record and an ever-growing homelessness crisis - surely giving the clothes to charities or shelter would have crossed someone's mind?

Although not the most commonly reported motivations, many participants in the cross-sectional survey subscribed to motives such as to change someone's mind, to make someone sorry, to show how much I care, to show helplessness – which appear to be acts of communication with a significant other.

Ever changed someone's mind?

Want to read someone's mind?

"Changing someone's mind.

Lord Raglan, that unfortunate military leader during the Crimean War, said that when faced with a problem he always asked himself, "What would the Duke of Wellington have done?" I submit that the thought of imitating someone else never crossed the duke's mind.

Did it cross Clinton's mind?

"That never crossed anybody's mind".