How to Use cross-country in a Sentence

cross-country

1 of 2 adjective

• The book details the cross-country trip made by Black citizens to the North from the South and West.
  — Terri Huggins Hart, goodhousekeeping.com, 1 May 2023
• The pair along with their two daughters were making the cross-country trip.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Learn more › Looking to camp this summer or make a cross-country trip?
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
• The reporter wrote a story about her cross-country road trip to visit her friend in 2021.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• When our children were very young, my wife and I took the family on a cross-country trip.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• There are miles of cross-country ski and hiking trails and plenty of wildlife (the game can be hunted if that’s your thing).
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• He’s kept every postcard over the years, even during a cross-country move.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• Door to door, cross-country journeys often last 10 or even 12 hours.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• That October, Weingarten embarked on a cross-country bus tour to get out the vote for Joe Biden.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• My best friend joined me for the cross-country drive, following behind in a support car.
  — Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the middle of the planning process, O’Neil had to step away from Tumblr for a few weeks while her family made a cross-country move.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 18 June 2023
• When the pandemic hit in 2020 and work slowed, nomads Filip Wolak and Sarah Tamar took a two-week cross-country trip.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• The Harlem star also wants to begin a cross-country bottle-signing tour in 2024.
  — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• In a cross-country assault, the same wheels and hulls are disadvantages.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Bill Koch wins a silver in the 30-kilometer cross-country race to become the first American to win a medal in a Nordic event.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• His teammate John Carriker said Davis went on a cross-country bike ride last year.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Over the course of the cross-country tour, Ballerini has joined Chesney on stage many nights and the duo have performed the duet, as well as a range of other Chesney hits.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
• Groups step up to help cross-country team John Herrera of Vista explained the genesis of efforts to aid the cross-country team.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• Whitney also takes a tumble as the ladies head out on a cross-country ski excursion.
  — Maggie Kreienberg, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Enter, Hanes Originals, the brand's latest and largest cross-country launch.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• Richardson spent part of 2021 in Charlotte before leaving for New York, then driving cross-country with his dog for a show out west.
  — Adam Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Three gold medalists in cross-country skiing tested positive for the substance and were stripped of their medals.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• Speed would be a torpid 21 miles per hour, though cross-country mobility would be good.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• Bill was in New Jersey at the time, the moving truck having commenced its cross-country voyage the previous day.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• The two share a moment looking at the night sky, but after their cross-country journey the little robot dies, their battery drained.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023
• His best adventures were his record-setting, cross-country speed runs.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
• Whatever charm the story might have possessed got lost in a game of cross-medium, cross-country telephone.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 5 May 2023
• Guides in the rental shop can take you on a nature walk, cross-country ski trek, or a showshoe hike, and a 10-minute shuttle gets you to the slopes for downhill skiing and snowboarding.
  — Kristine Hansen, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
• But after six straight games on the road and a cross-country flight home from Washington, there were real questions about whether the Lakers could take advantage of it.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Male cross-country athletes had the highest rates compared with anyone else in the study — a finding that surprised the authors since previous research found higher rates in football, Whelan said.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024

cross-country

2 of 2 noun

• Those looking to have some winter fun can snowmobile, dog sled, cross-country ski, aero sleigh, or bike on the ice bridge connecting the two islands.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2023
• As she’s gotten older, Williams has leaned on changing up her signature fiery locks in times of emotional crises like breakups and big cross-country moves.
  — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
• That’s the name of an adorable wolfdog that simply wanted to be a part of something, which ended up being women’s cross-country skiing.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• The inconvenience of a cross-country road trip inspired her to confront her fear of flying.
  — Evan Roberts, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
• The dog that ran onto a course and raced the cross-country skiers?
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026