cut across

Example Sentences

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“It’s cutting across every demographic and every partisan line that otherwise seems to divide the nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal

We weave around the kids in wheelchairs, then cut across the grass to the office.

From Literature

There were lots of other roads he could have cut across, but there he was, twenty minutes later, staring at Tom’s house from across the street.

From Literature

Results have an irritating way of cutting across reasoned opinion - not that Carrick shows any sign of getting swept along.

From BBC

The tributary of the Potomac River cutting across the land was called Tiber Creek after the river that flowed through the Eternal City.

From The Wall Street Journal