How To Use Cross-shaped In A Sentence
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Basque cross, or "lauburu," * a symbol of prosperity, is to the Basque what the fleur-de-lys is to France, and though you won't find as many French streets "fleurdelisé," * when in Basque country you will see the cross-shaped lauburu partout!
French Word-A-Day:
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Andalusite is orthorhombic, crystallizing as elongate square prisms which at low temperature have a conspicuous cross-shaped arrangement of dark inclusions giving the variety chiastolite.
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The cross-shaped hall resembles an aircraft hangar or perhaps the transept and nave of a modern-day basilica.
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Hermaphroditic flowers develop from leaf axils and have eight stamens (with pollen connected by viscin threads), and a cross-shaped stigma.
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Cut a cross-shaped hole out of the back of your t-shirt and go get sunburnt.
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Cruciform flowers are regular flowers with four petals cross-shaped.
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The game of the Hindoos, called pachisi, is played upon a cross-shaped board or cloth; it is a combination of checkers and draughts, with the throwing of dice, the dice determining the number of moves; when the Spaniards entered Mexico they found the Aztecs playing a game called patolli, identical with the Hindoo pachisi, on a similar cross-shaped board.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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The design featured a sweeping, horizontal roof-plane supported on eight chromium-plated steel columns, cross-shaped in sections rather than H-shaped like most steel columns.
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The toothwort (_dentaria laciniata_) is sometimes known as the pepper-root, and every school boy and girl living near the woods is familiar with the taste of its tubers and the appearance of its cross-shaped flowers.
Some Spring Days in Iowa
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The procedure Dr. Michael R. Egnor performed, called a cranial cruciate decompression, involved removing four triangular sections of bone from the top of Bobby's skull, leaving behind a cross-shaped, floating section to protect a large vein and four openings through which the swelling could protrude, alleviating the pressure.
"The inside of the body is a very good place to store things like this."
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The fences that had kept people penned in remained intact, the cross-shaped corridors that separated the audience into quadrants had not been breached, and the boarish imbeciles still held guns and positions of arbitrary power.
Three Days in the Desert
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The biplane looked much like a Wright Flyer except it had only one propeller and a cross-shaped tail.
