cross someone's mind
cross someone's mind verb: to come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly.
Verb
cross someone's mind (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's mind, present participle crossing someone's mind, simple past and past participle crossed someone's mind)
- To come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly.
- Sometimes it crossed my mind that I hadn't had one of those strange spiritual experiences since my time at Vons. I wondered if perhaps they had stopped for good.2014, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, page 300
- “But honestly, my worst thought was she slipped and fell in the shower. Never did it cross my mind that, oh my God, somebody abducted her.”2026 August 10, Nicholas Muhoro, quoting Amy Kuns, “Jodi Huisentruit, 27, Vanished From Her Apartment Parking Lot in 1995. Police Found Signs of a Struggle”, in Skip Boring, archived from the...
Forms of cross someone's mind
| third-person singular present | crosses someone's mind |
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| present participle | crossing someone's mind |
| past participle | crossed someone's mind |
| past | crossed someone's mind |
Questions about cross someone's mind
- What does cross someone's mind mean?
- Cross someone's mind means to come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly.
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- Cross someone's mind is a verb.
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- The past tense of cross someone's mind is crossed someone's mind.
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