How To Use Cross-legged In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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Kriti sat down cross-legged on a mat and gulped down a lota of milk.
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I sat cross-legged, leaning up against the backboard.
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While he plays his signature Gibson SG guitar, the band sit cross-legged holding plastic saxophones and keytars.
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He was sitting cross-legged on the floor beside my bed.
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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
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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
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She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
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We sit cross-legged beside half a drum kit.
Times, Sunday Times
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After football and prayers the boys sat cross-legged on the floor while Faisal spoke to them about "shirk" - the sin of worshipping Gods other than Allah.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Moses McTavish and I ducked through his tipi door and sat cross-legged on buffalo robes around the fire pit in the center.
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I remember looking at him there, that shadowy figure sitting cross-legged on that cushion with his peaked ears twitching, his eyes flashing like a brief flare of sun off oil on water.
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I found a tree toward the edges of the outside area, and sat cross-legged, before unzipping my guitar bag.
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It was the shepherd families I had met, sitting cross-legged in their mountain huts, eating sour milk balls and drinking chai.
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Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba?
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Inside, sitting cross-legged on the floor with a bowl of soup in his lap was Jad, his seemingly young page.
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he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated
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Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic.
Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
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‘Now let's talk,’ he said with a smile, sitting down cross-legged on the cold concrete floor and patting the floor beside him.
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They normally sat cross-legged on the floor, preferably on a carpet with bolsters or pillows.
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In her bedroom Fleur had flung off her gown, and, wrapped in a shapeless garment, with the white flower still in her hair, she looked like a mousme, sitting cross-legged on her bed, writing by candlelight.
To Let
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Yet he turned down offers to compete, instead spending hours practicing after school in empty gymnasiums or his tiny room, sometimes just sitting cross-legged and staring at a wall until bedtime.
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A small dark man sat cross-legged on a divan, and Hugh made an unpracticed little bow.
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Kings and Gods both wear their hair in beehive topknots and sit cross-legged gazing down from their gaddis under crimson parasols, as the courtiers feast, and dancing girls celebrate their victories over the enemy.
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She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
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Shilts is pictured in slacks and plimsolls "relaxing" in a fringed armchair in front of his massive oak-veneer TV; but even here, cross-legged in the shadow of his own occasional table, he still seems to glower and fret, radiating a dark and unsettling energy of repulsion.
Can Joe Hart save himself from the curse of the England keeper? | Barney Ronay
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The fat lady sat cross-legged with her feet up on the seat, as if she was sitting at home.
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When we sat down to eat, in a cross-legged row on the floor across from the prayer wall, the meal itself was systematic.
Deepa S. Iyer: The Sacred Act Of Eating: A Hindu Foodie's Daily Ritual
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People sat cross-legged across the floor of the building's hallways and chanted slogans.
Wisconsin Democrats AWOL for heated vote
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor with my big thighs and dodgy knees was quite uncomfortable, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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He lived in a solitary cell just long enough to lie in and wide enough to sit cross-legged.
Times, Sunday Times
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` ` But ye maun speak your mind on't forthwith, Monkbarns, if ye want the stones; for Deacon Harlewalls thinks the carved through-stanes might be put with advantage on the front of the new council-house --- that is, the twa cross-legged figures that the callants used to ca 'Robin and Bobbin, ane on ilka door-cheek; and the other stane, that they ca'd Ailie Dailie, abune the door.
The Antiquary
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He was sitting cross-legged on the floor, eyes closed, apparently in deep meditation.
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Once settled, she draws up her feet and sits cross-legged on the squashy chair.
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As they pass the other cabin, Primo notices, through its lit window, Angelita, sitting cross-legged on a bed.
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I was certainly in no fit state to stand in the freezing cold for five hours to collect a security pass and, more importantly, I could not stand cross-legged in a queue for the toilets.
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Bob dropped to the floor in a cross-legged position, then lifted himself onto the tips of his toes.
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This outstanding initiative, brought to cross-legged and desperate Aussies by the superbly-named National Continence Management Strategy, is claimed to enable bursting bladders to locate the nearest dunny right down to the metre.
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She disengaged from me, sat up cross-legged, but did not rebutton her blouse.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The curtains were closed and we sat on the bed in semi-darkness, me against the wall, Ali cross-legged in front of me.
THE MANANA MAN
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The groom and his close family took their places, cross-legged, on the matting beside the trunk of wedding gifts.
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He stared at him tentatively, dazed, then dropped back to the ground cross-legged.
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I had to sit cross-legged for 14 hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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We shuffled inside and sat cross-legged on hessian mats, at least 1,000 people, I reckoned.
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He had even glanced up from his Bible Sunday at the meeting house to find her sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor, her expression pensive, her cheek resting against Dani's sleek head.
Once An Angel
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The grumpy children had to sit cross-legged because we needed the floor space beneath their feet for luggage.
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Danny lowered himself to the floor and sat cross-legged listening intently to the conversation.
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A photograph of Beatle John — sideburned, mustachioed, and bespectacled — sitting cross-legged in our living room in the same spot where Zillah now stands.
John Lennon Slept Here (Or Was It Ringo?)
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It was a tattered, ring-bound thing from the early seventies with a lurid photo of some hippy, with a goatee beard and two-foot long sideburns, sitting cross-legged on the cover.
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Moses McTavish and I ducked through his tipi door and sat cross-legged on buffalo robes around the fire pit in the center.
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That child sitting cross-legged on the floor of that shop, in the heart of the forest, reading all alone in the lamplight, is not there by chance.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
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Meryl closed Vangie's door and sat down cross-legged in the hallway.
Radium
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Proper Tuareg riding saddles are placed in front of the camel's hump and you sit cross-legged with your bare feet resting on the camel's neck.
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The pomelo, or the ‘Chinese Grapefruit,’ is an uncommon member of the citrus family, distinguished by its sheer size and pale, pear-like appearance, and has the presence of a fat, cross-legged Buddha.
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Before she could reply, Alvar cut her off from where he was supposedly observing their match from atop one of the boulders, sitting cross-legged, absently fletching several new arrows for the upcoming final trial.
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Rows of barefoot men sat cross-legged on the floor as their young sons fidgeted next to them.
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On the eve of the lunar New Year, all members of the family sit cross-legged in the center of the ger or yurt and begin their dinner at midnight.
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Meditation "isn't just about bringing awareness to your experience while you're sitting cross-legged with eyes closed," says Byrne.
Meditation and mindfulness may give your brain a boost
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On the right, perhaps, would be a shop all open to the road, where, cross-legged upon a kind of daïs, the merchant sat among his piled wares, unenterprising and unsolicitous, serenely confident in the balance-sheet of fate.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Once cross-legged on the floor, we are told to imagine that we are a branch floating down a river.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their feet were barefoot; Jude let his hang over the edge while Josie sat cross-legged.
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In the middle of this aisle, on a raised tomb, is a cross-legged mail, and a pointed helmet of the same, his head reclined on a double cushion to the right, his hands elevated; on his shield a bend between six crosses botone, charged with only one bezant.
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Sit cross-legged on the floor or in a chair with straight spine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bag-encumbered still photographers sat cross-legged on the floor in the wide aisle in front of the stage, carefully measuring and remeasuring focus and exposure, impatient fingers twitching on well-worn shutter releases.
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A little room in the shade hung with yellow matting, no chairs, but a wide divan at the far end, where a few Moors sat cross-legged or reclined, smoking long pipes of soothing kif, and eating the pernicious haschisch -- this constitutes a café.
In the Tail of the Peacock
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Father was sitting cross-legged by the remains of a fire on which he had roasted the leg of a small deer.
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But the old limb was made of heavy sponge, making it impossible to wear cross-legged on the floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tailor sits cross-legged day in day out sits in there, takes the needle to put on puts on, is raising the iron shove around.
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Meh'Lindi sat cross-legged regarding Jaq expressionlessly all this time.
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Forty or fifty women were sitting cross-legged on the ground.
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A feature of these temples is the hundreds of statues of cross-legged tirthankaras or deified Jain teachers.
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In the shade of a sycamore grove, bikers sat cross-legged on idled Harleys, heckling the gapers and high-fiving each other.
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Hazel sat cross-legged on the floor of the gym, her eyes were closed and a look of deep concentration was on her face.
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Maddy was holding his small wooden box on her lap, and he was sitting cross-legged, a cedarwood chest the size of a small coffin in front of him.
Dragon Warrior
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Claude and Ruth were talking quietly with Pat, who sat cross-legged on the sofa.
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For Montenegro–England on Sky, the indefatigable Shreeves was cast as sage nodder, and while Glenn Hoddle and Jamie Redknapp eschewed the chance to sit cross-legged on the studio floor – an idea for future Sky football shows, you can have that one on me – they were charged with making sense of a typically dysfunctional post-match conversation.
Fabio Capello reveals his debt to Theatre of the Absurd | Martin Kelner
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Meditation does not demand sitting cross-legged amidst candles and burning incense, muttering weird incantations.
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He could be content sitting cross-legged, weeding a flower bed, or repairing a broken chair.
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If you sit cross-legged on the floor, see that your hips are higher than your knees, you'll be more comfortable.
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The painting classes in the film focus on mountain landscapes, still-life studies of ‘the West’ such as a western saddle and lariat, and life drawings of local Stoney people posed cross-legged in front of a picturesque teepee.
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High Winds White Sky has its dated hippie moments: the daughter of the stars turns up; the acoustic fingerpicking don't let up; the imagery is pastoral, cross-legged, palms-up.
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Forty or fifty women were sitting cross-legged on the ground.
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Vanessa sits cross-legged on her bed in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a tiny, elfin figure with a striking, delicate face that looks as if it has been gently chiselled from creamy alabaster.
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Intrepid Lotte sat cross-legged on the floor, hands on knees, a back to make a ramrod seem flaccid.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing.
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In a chamber whose dome was of gold-filagreed ivory, King Akhirom, clad in a white silken robe that made him look even more ghostly, sat cross-legged on a couch of gemmed ivory and stared at Rufia kneeling before him.
Conan the Freebooter
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The man in the ocher-colored robes sits cross-legged, eyes gently shut, palms half-open like seashells resting lightly on his knees.
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My message is that meditation is not necessarily about sitting on the floor cross-legged and chanting for hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sat cross-legged on the floor, still in his suit, and pulled the cat into his lap.
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She then commanded us all to sit on the floor, preferably cross-legged.
Times, Sunday Times
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She decided to sit down cross-legged on the floor, a confused look on her face, debating whether to ask or keep quiet until a better time.
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I plopped down, cross-legged, on the bed next to the suitcase.
Skipping a Beat
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She sat cross-legged with a confused look on her face, debating whether to ask or keep quiet until a better time.
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During meditation we all sit cross-legged, hand on knees, eyes closed, and try empty our minds.
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And they were sitting cross-legged on the floor, totally - well, they were dressed in our toweling robes.
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In the days of Nad Al Sheba, at a typical race, men milled around the floodlit track in flowing white dishdashas and head scarves while women in black abayas sat cross-legged on the lawn that embraced the track, poring over racing forms.
All the Sheikh’s Horses
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David and I were sitting cross-legged on the floor and she set the trembling pooch on my thigh.
Dirty Secret
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Her small frame is perched cross-legged, yoga-style, on the cane couch by the window.
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It was wonderfully meditative, and as I sat there cross-legged, gonging away and soaking up the mystical reverberations, I got to thinking.
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Rob hung up the receiver and sat cross-legged on the floor for several minutes.
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He was seated cross-legged at the foot of her bed, watching her sleep.
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At the sunlit front of the shed, an artisan sat cross-legged on the ground, a low table before him.
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The gamelan instruments were placed on supports high enough for Western musicians to play without having to sit cross-legged.
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And they were sitting cross-legged on the floor, totally - well, they were dressed in our toweling robes.
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The brown tattooed limbs of one man are stretched across the mat, the others are sitting cross-legged, making lauhala leis.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Later, during a silent noontime meditation, some people sat cross-legged on the floor in Zen's lotus position; others sat, with eyes closed, on chairs laid out for Mr. Marden's afternoon lecture normally, only a handful of backless benches inhabit the inner space.
An Interior of Spiritual and Artistic Subtlety
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She was cross-legged behind him, and he was sitting up with his legs stretched in front of him.
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Janet Flanner, cross-legged on the floor, top hat decorated with one black, one white mask.
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As Joseph headed for the nearest exit he saw Justin sitting cross-legged on the floor.
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We sit cross-legged beside half a drum kit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could often be found sitting cross-legged onstage, using just his guitar, his beat-boxing skills and a battery of effects pedals to concoct phantasmal full bands.
Rocking the Mic
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Forget sitting cross-legged and humming.
The Sun
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They normally sat cross-legged on the floor, preferably on a carpet with bolsters or pillows.
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He walked up until he was standing right in front of her, his dark shadow looming darkly over her limp form on the ground, cross-legged.
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We sit cross-legged, facing each other, on a charpoy - a bedstead - in the middle of the farmyard.
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Joseph sat cross-legged on the peppercorns and breathed in her smells - lily of the valley, cloves, spearmint chewing gum.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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He made me walk back up to the room where he was, and sit on the floor, cross-legged.
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From the living room floor where she sat, cross-legged, with her tom-tom drum on her lap and the bottle set out before her, the Mysteress began her song-chant.
One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
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He sat cross-legged on the floor, lecturing to his friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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A handful of men are sitting cross-legged on the raised dais of the communal eating area, weapons by their side, while we take a table on the main floor.
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A small dark man sat cross-legged on a divan, and Hugh made an unpracticed little bow.
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Models sat cross-legged on the floor, smoking and poring over The Daily, Fashion Week's quotidian rag.
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He had barricaded himself in the living-room, where he was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor.
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Most of them sit cross-legged with arched eyebrows and a look of detached skepticism, others slump in their chairs, proudly demonstrating their annoyance at being forced by meddling parents to attend a church activity.
American Grace
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Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, some strolling, playing, at other times turning and dancing.
Magicians of Gor
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The redhead was more composed, sitting cross-legged in a way that only just allowed the kilt to cover the tops of her thighs, hands in her lap to prevent me getting a better view.
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I had a date there once and they accused her of being "unhygienic" because she sat cross-legged on the chair.
BlogTO
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Barefoot and cross-legged, she nestles into a well-worn couch in the comfortable study-cum-studio that husband Tony de Beer built for her at their Westdene house.
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Outside, charpoys cradled drivers, some sleeping, others sitting cross-legged on the woven strings, scooping food on to triangles of chapati from tin plates and bowls.
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As we came in I saw a girl sitting cross-legged on the floor against the wall reading a book.
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Claude and Ruth were talking quietly with Pat, who sat cross-legged on the sofa.
