intersecting

Example Sentences

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This has led to growing interest in gridshells, which use intersecting curved elements of metal, glass or timber to span wide areas without interior supports.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

This mass failure is the result of three intersecting crises.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

I've always had a fascination with both prison literature and plague literature, which are very intersecting, overlapping things.

From Salon • May 8, 2025

Flagstones was discovered in the 1980s during the construction of the Dorchester bypass, with excavations revealing it was formed of a circular ditch made of intersecting pits.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

“All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.”

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy