crossable

Example Sentences

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The Sinai land bridge was crossable several times, as early as 246,000 years ago, and the southern strait had even more favorable windows, including the period 65,000 years ago.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

The model had to make several assumptions, including that the southern strait would always have been crossable by humans and that those people might have had the boat technology to make the crossing.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

If you read that and started crossing every crossable limb in the hopes you’d get to hear Future rapping over "Gonna Fly Now," you can go ahead and uncross them.

From The Verge • Nov. 13, 2015

Anyone in the camp will admit the South Africa game is one to put down to inexperience, by way of offering up the second string, crossing all crossable parts of the anatomy and hoping.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2015

Before the river was crossable for teams, I cut my name on a tree, bearing date 1870, which I again saw many years later.

From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)