How to Use across the way in a Sentence

across the way

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  • Phillips looked down at her phone, then across the way at her friends, then back to her phone.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • And across the way, box upon box of T-shirts and protest signs.
    Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • The official across the way, not the one two feet away, threw the flag.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Our attention is caught by a building in a park across the way.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • All this to get to a second building, across the way, where ice was available.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, just across the way, the invasive plant is thinned to wisps.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The figure could be seen dragging a foot across the way to obscure the tracks of the cart.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Schwartzkopf told Miller that thieves had been stealing goods from a warehouse across the way.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • But Drew takes the guy out from across the way, with a 40-yard pistol shot.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
  • At the gas station across the way, pumps were tipped over, and the roof was completely sheared off.
    Lauren Victory, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The lights from the building across the way had gone out, and everything was darker now.
    Samanta Schweblin, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
  • And just across the way is a silverback, a mature male, munching on leaves.
    Christina Liao, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There was a major river nearby, mountains across the way, and a small town with a few stores.
    Justin Nobel, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The smiling face and warm greeting will come from across the way instead of from behind a meat or deli counter.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Well, the soldier at the far left is the one who’s chugging from a wineskin, not the angel across the way.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • As a bonus, your neighbors will enjoy admiring this setup from across the way too.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Akin said her neighbor across the way has mental health issues and came close to falling victim to the heat.
    oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • In response, Girardi left his dugout and stomped onto the field, yelling across the way.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 June 2021
  • The president strode from the White House to the church across the way, Bible in hand.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2020
  • For a chill breakfast or fresh pastry, try Whale City Bakery across the way.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Jimmy Ulmer … was staying in an apartment right across the way from the Slatens?
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Terry is not the only neighbor Angela observes across the way.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
  • But as the fire started making its way down Mias Canyon, the man feared for his neighbors' ranch across the way.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The purple and pink Cheshire cat smiles from above, while the little caterpillar smokes on a mushroom across the way.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2022
  • The bathroom, meanwhile, has a sink and toilet, as well as a dedicated shower with a seat across the way.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The seller in the stall across the way mentioned that Garoppolo injured his foot and the backup was sent in.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • This explains why there’s such a difference between the inner lagoon and the slapdash shops across the way.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2023
  • One night, late, a horrified Anna spies her friend bloody and expiring through the window across the way.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • The concierge shuffles you from the salon across the way to your private TSA screening.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • And then there's the throw-in worktop console across the way, space that could have been better used for a loveseat or entertainment center.
    New Atlas, 18 July 2024

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