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cross-legged

ADVERB
  1. with the legs crossed
    he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated

How To Use cross-legged In A Sentence

  • For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
  • Surely such an incongruous question was never put in an Arab town in the heart of Africa by a sheikh dressed in bernouse and turban, with a jewel-hilted yataghan at his side, sitting cross-legged on a cushion. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
  • I was inclined to rekindle the fire, and once I had it going I sat cross-legged before it, gazing at Carter through the orange and yellow flames.
  • Kriti sat down cross-legged on a mat and gulped down a lota of milk.
  • I sat cross-legged, leaning up against the backboard.
  • While he plays his signature Gibson SG guitar, the band sit cross-legged holding plastic saxophones and keytars.
  • He was sitting cross-legged on the floor beside my bed.
  • Nearly fifty years ago I sat cross-legged on the floor of what we called the turret room at the end of the long corridor above McDonald Road, and read about Everest in ‘The National Geographic’, and wanted to be a mountaineer. Jacob's Ladder
  • I am sitting cross-legged on the floor with a glue pot in one hand and a wavy green ribbon representing my first love in the other. Times, Sunday Times
  • She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
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