crisscross
Example Sentences
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Mother and Father crisscrossed the floorboards, wiggled the front door latch, listened to the individual creak of each stair.
From Literature
Nearby were partial skeletons of long necked dinosaurs preserved in river sediments, pointing to a forested inland environment crisscrossed by waterways.
From Science Daily
The broader region is crisscrossed by active fault lines created as the African Plate presses northeastward against the Hellenic Plate.
From Science Daily
For hours, she crisscrossed the city looking for a stocked supermarket.
The tracks of animals that had hunted for food in the night crisscrossed their path, but the animals themselves were not to be seen.
From Literature
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