Sentence examples for crossing directly from inspiring English sources

We were very near the end of the trail when we were surprised by a large snake, about six feet long, crossing directly in front of us.

But in the late 1990s, geologist Jelle de Boer of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, suggested that two faults crossing directly under the temple could have been the source of the chasm and the vapors.

The hurricane reemerged into the Atlantic Ocean after crossing directly over New Smyrna Beach as a Category 1 hurricane, but restrengthened slightly over open waters.

Hooker brought the Army to the Rappahannock for a third time, but rather than crossing directly into the defenses of the Confederates, he divided his much larger force to attack Lee's army from two sides simultaneously.

On street level, head to Shibuya Crossing, directly outside the subway station, to marvel at the sheer number of pedestrians – apparently close to 100,000 people pass through the crossing every hour.

The pilgrims crossed directly from Gaza, which is under Hamas control, into Egypt, through the Rafah border terminal.

That said, borders are excruciatingly tedious - up to 10 hours to cross directly to China, and if you go via Mongolia, you've got two to cross.

Australian centre Domic scored one of three first-half tries, fooling the Rovers defence with a dummy to cross directly from a scrum.

The detour took five weeks but — and this was the point — entailed none of the dangers risked by illegal Mexican migrants trying to cross directly.

"As it was nearly dark my first care after crossing was to have the bridge relaid, so that the infantry might cross directly over.

Polar icebreakers will soon be able to cross directly over the North Pole rather than traversing the Northwest Passage around the coast of Canada and Alaska, or the Northern Sea Route along the coastline of Russia.