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[ UK /kɹˈɒswe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a junction where one street or road crosses another

How To Use crossway In A Sentence

  • Suddenly, one of her flankers raised her greatfork above her cowl, held crossways like a horizontal bar.
  • The route will also form part of the M50 southern crossway which is due to reach Central Park by the end of next year.
  • I did not expect to discover that being a Christian might put one crossways with the assumptions that shape "normality" -- assumptions that make war unproblematic -- but like it or not, I became convinced that Christians cannot kill. Stanley Hauerwas: The Surprise of Being a Christian
  • The knife was sticking out next to me, as he was lying crossways on me.
  • He dropped back on the bed crossways so that his feet were still on the floor, and stared up at the ceiling. SCANDAL
  • His very clothing and weaponry seemed determined to hamper him, fabric catching on a nail here, a splinter of wood there, his sword jamming crossways against two beams behind him and pinning him until Michael set him free.
  • I just had time to lay crossways to it and kick it when all I saw was a brown cloud.
  • One of them, clutching its weapon firmly in its hand, stood upright and peered around the corner and into the wide crossway that connected their corridor with the adjacent one.
  • The young imperial Maiden of Fifteen has now become a worn discrowned Widow of Thirty-eight; grey before her time: this is the last Procession: 'Few minutes after the Trial ended, the drums were beating to arms in all Sections; at sunrise the armed force was on foot, cannons getting placed at the extremities of the Bridges, in the Squares, Crossways, all along from the Palais de Justice to the Place de la Révolution. "Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle
  • The post front sight slides into a dovetail cut from the front of the slide, rather than crossways, and is secured by a roll pin.
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