How to Use crossing in a Sentence

crossing

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  • Stop at the railroad crossing.
  • The crossing takes an hour and will set you back around $80 for a round-trip.
    — Chris Heasman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Aubert said this wasn't the first crash at that same crossing.
    — Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 June 2022
  • At the world’s busiest border crossing, the lines can stretch for blocks.
    — Carmen Valeria Escobar, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The crossing sees more than 25% of the trade between the two countries.
    — Rob Gillies, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • One day, Lewis reached a rail crossing blocked by a train.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The tragedy came late one evening when a freight train sped through a crossing where a car was stopped.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Spencer said he was once almost hit by a train at the same crossing.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 June 2022
  • Troops seized the Rafah crossing into Egypt, which has been closed since.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • In October, Egypt blocked the gates of the crossing with concrete slabs.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The aid arrived from the Rafah crossing, the Palestine Red Crescent said.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But when the group reached the San Ysidro border crossing on March 7, an agent pulled the family and their van to the side.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Did crossing and goals from defenders come to the fore again?
    — Art De Roché, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His best pass was a nice crossing route to Tyjon Lindsey that went for 21 yards.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The walk includes a stream crossing with water up to 2 feet deep.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 16 May 2022
  • Fox sent a perfect crossing pass from near the right sideline.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Now, in mid-July, the key crossing still hasn't reopened.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2023
  • NBC News witnessed one crossing with Poland this month with a line that stretched for more than 10 miles.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 28 May 2022
  • People who said they were linked to Hamas have set up checkpoints on the Gaza side leading to the crossing.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The Sherman Minton Renewal project is meant to add 30 years of life to the decades-old crossing, the release said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023
  • In recent days, the U.S. has seen a sharp increase in crossings along the southern borders.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • To reach the crossing, Mr. Alshawamreh rose at 5 a.m. and waited in the darkness for a southbound car pool.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The extension of the road west and a crossing over Interstate 49 are phase tw0.
    — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2023
  • On Tuesday afternoon a crowd of men had formed at the crossing in the bitter cold.
    — Muhammad Haj Kadour, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Much of my childhood was lost at the moment of my border crossing.
    — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Border crossings are said to come from all over the globe, including parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The Polish end of the crossing was lined with hundreds of cars waiting to enter Ukraine that formed a miles-long queue.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • The other was in a dump truck the train hit at a crossing, causing eight cars and two locomotives to leave the track.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 June 2022
  • Tolls for ships passing through the canal—over 70% of which are going to or coming from U.S. ports—have climbed steeply as drought conditions caused annual crossings to dip by 21% last year.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Border patrol agents made similar — though smaller — seizures among fruit and vegetable shipments at the same border crossing in 2021 and last year.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025

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