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How to use crossroad in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Crossroad means a crossroads (place where one road crosses another). Example: “The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.”

Examples of crossroad by meaning

nounA road that crosses another.

  • Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north.2012, Richard G. Chapman, Work Break, page 114

More sentences with crossroad

  • The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.From the entry meet
  • We'll RV at the crossroads in Brandon at twenty hundred.From the entry RV
  • THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town.2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN. From the entry ajax
  • The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split.2005, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold. From the entry crossroads
  • Your crossroads moment is often a transition time, or Selah, for him as well.2004, Nancie Carmichael, Selah: Your Moment to Stop, Think, and Step into Your Future, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell Company…. From the entry selah
  • Cosmopolitan, bustling, exotic, mysterious, Shanghai was a cultural crossroads and the quintessential liberty town for sailors.1996, James R. Schultz, “Paris Of The East”, in The Long Way Home: A Pacific Odyssey of World War II, Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN…. From the entry Paris of the East
  • Mulroney) saw two farmers at a crossroads he had five more promises to make.1986, Canada. Parliament, House of Commons Debates, Official Report. From the entry pocketful
  • But first he stopped his car at the crossroads where the highway forked off to Gastmann's house.1955, Therese Pol, The judge and his hangman, translation of original by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, page 48. From the entry crossroads
  • The compital shrines stood at primary crossroads in the vici and received sacrifices during the annual Compitalia Festival.2011, Brenda Longfellow, Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage. From the entry vicus
  • The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 407. From the entry APL
  • This year, to capitalize on that interest, the announcement took place in the crossroads of consumerdom, Times Square.2009 September 28, Stuart Elliott, “At an Industry Event, a Sense That the Gloom Is Lifting”, in New York Times. From the entry consumerdom
  • City of Kilgore transformed from quiet village to cultural crossroads during the oil rush, absorbing influences from migrant workers worldwide.2000, James Anthony Clark, The Last Boom. From the entry City of Kilgore
  • Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads.1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’, Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul…. From the entry freedom
  • They reached a crossroads in the forest, at which they had to turn in loose sand and struggle up a slope.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry bullet-headed
  • When we do find ourselves at that crossroad, everything we have and everything we are is on the scales.1963, “The Existential Crisis In Intensive Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy. From the entry existential crisis
  • Strange crossroad towns on top of the world rolled by, with shawled Indians watching us from under hatbrims and rebozos.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4. From the entry rebozo
  • Also on the drawing board were a variety of megaconstructions that Erdoğan believed would place the city once more at the crossroads of the world.2016, Thomas F[rancis] Madden, “Becoming Modern”, in Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World, New York, N.Y.: Viking…. From the entry megaconstruction
  • Mr Joseph walked in the forest to its deep without hesitation, until he passed a certain four way crossroad called Tshipukumanyunyu which means “Ghostsome”.2015, Mulaudzi Ndifelani Eric, "Through". From the entry ghostsome
  • The mapou belongs to Legba, the master of the crossroads, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, Apollo to Ogoun's Ares.2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 78. From the entry mapou
  • In recent weeks Cosby has, perhaps more than any other topline entertainer of the moment, been both at the pinnacle and at the crossroads.1969 July, Ebony, volume 24, number 9, page 146. From the entry topline
  • Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC. From the entry gabble
  • Because of its location at the crossroads of America, Indianapolis is intensely aware of the tremendous problems concerning highways and vehicular traffic generally.1953, “Thursday, April 30, 1953”, in National Highway Study, United States Government Publishing Office, pages 169–170. From the entry Crossroads of America
  • The Democrats may be far from that stage, but they stand at a crossroads if they do not act to end the onward march of American Corbynization.2019 August 15, Robert Philpot, “Is Corbynization the Democratic Party’s Future?”, in Commentary. From the entry Corbynization
  • The addorsing of a French Gothic outer portal to a Byzantine-style inner portal illustrates Genoa's position between west and east at a crossroads in the Mediterranean.2018 March 12, A Companion to Medieval Genoa, BRILL, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry addorse
  • On the hill to the northeast of the crossroads and the N-32, the 3rd Battalion's provisional company of rifle and light weaponsmen do not know what is going on.1998, J. C. Doherty, The shock of war. From the entry weaponsman

Meaning of crossroad

  1. noun A crossroads (place where one road crosses another).
  2. noun A road that crosses another.

Full definition of crossroad

Questions about crossroad in a sentence

How do you use crossroad in a sentence?
Crossroad is used as a noun. For example: “The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.”
What is a short sentence with crossroad?
“We'll RV at the crossroads in Brandon at twenty hundred.”
What does crossroad mean?
Crossroad means a crossroads (place where one road crosses another).

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