Used in a Sentence

crossed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crossed.

Editorial note

Roboto does have the crossed zeroes, but it seems a bit less crisp than Droid Sans to me.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Marked by a line drawn crosswise, often denoting cancellation.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crossed gathered in one view.

adjective

Marked by a line drawn crosswise, often denoting cancellation.

adjective

Folded.

adjective

Cruciate.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crossed.

Example sentences

1

Roboto does have the crossed zeroes, but it seems a bit less crisp than Droid Sans to me.

2

The way the police in America act today is borderline Orwellian, or perhaps it's already crossed that line.

3

You can't cheat that easily; if you've crossed the distance faster than distance/maximum_legal_speed, you've been speeding, period.

4

But profoundly limiting, and to an extent you won't comprehend until you've crossed that knowledge barrier.

5

It doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't make your proprietary platform cross the chasm the web has crossed.

6

Evidently the relative cost of bandwidth and value of analytics have crossed over.

7

I notice that even after my upvote it hadn't crossed 0 so it seems it wasn't a single downvote.

8

Sounds great, but doesn't really work with open source software (unless I have some wires crossed).

9

But then after the visit, we headed due south and then crossed directly over into the UTC+10 time zone for Guam.

10

Being an organ donor had never even crossed my radar.

11

I've been a big fan of Droid Sans Mono for the longest time, and my biggest complaint was the lack of 'crossed' zeroes.

12

Nothing here has crossed the line of disrespect.

Quote examples

1

Slack didn't invent anything new, but their chat somehow crossed the line to being polished enough for "normal people".

2

It means that WordPress has "crossed the chasm" into the "early majority."

3

Most likely this is going to work like Amazon's "discounts" where nobody would reasonably pay the crossed out price but they're going to call it a discount to make you feel better.

4

Since it wasn't at a perfect 90 degree angle, the CCD strips each crossed over the plane defined by the Sun-Earth line and the axis orthogonal to the Earth's orbit (I referred to it as "south") at an angle.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use crossed in a sentence?

Roboto does have the crossed zeroes, but it seems a bit less crisp than Droid Sans to me.

What does crossed mean?

Marked by a line drawn crosswise, often denoting cancellation.

What part of speech is crossed?

crossed is commonly used as adjective.