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  • adjective Marked by lines crossing in two or more directions.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of crisscross.

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  • adjective marked with crossing lines

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Examples

  • HOLMES: Yes, and it's an investigation that's kind of crisscrossed the country.

    CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2009 2009

  • Connecting these industries to one another and to eastern U.S. and European markets were railroads, which crisscrossed the West by the end of the nineteenth century.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The pair crisscrossed Afghanistan in the summer, looking for converts to their cause.

    For This Yogi, Afghan Peace Plan Needs More Downward Dog Dion Nissenbaum 2011

  • In the run-up to the 1960 presidential campaign, they crisscrossed the country together, discovering, as Mr. Sorensen wrote in a 2008 memoir, "Counselor," that they "enjoyed each other's company, joking, talking politics and planning his future."

    Ted Sorensen, JFK's speechwriter and defender, dies at 82 Martin Weil 2010

  • Her ankle joints made an agonized hiss, ball sockets crisscrossed with score marks from the sand.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Shadows crisscrossed on the wall like dragon scales.

    Rustle of Millions brian warfield 2011

  • She became such a lightning rod that she crisscrossed the country raising money for endangered incumbents but campaigned publicly with only one or two during the fall sprint.

    As Democrats lose House, Nancy Pelosi's historic reign as speaker ends Philip Rucker 2010

  • In the run-up to the 1960 presidential campaign, they crisscrossed the country together, discovering, as Mr. Sorensen wrote in a 2008 memoir, "Counselor," that they "enjoyed each other's company, joking, talking politics and planning his future."

    Ted Sorensen, JFK's speechwriter and defender, dies at 82 Martin Weil 2010

  • Candidates crisscrossed the metro area Sunday in a last-minute push for votes as the latest poll showed that while the New York governor's race has the makings of a blowout, the contests for attorney general and comptroller are a dead heat.

    Campaigning Down to the Wire Andrew Grossman 2010

  • In the run-up to the 1960 presidential campaign, they crisscrossed the country together, discovering, as Mr. Sorensen wrote in a 2008 memoir, "Counselor," that they "enjoyed each other's company, joking, talking politics and planning his future."

    JFK's speechwriter, confidant, counselor and a keeper of the Kennedy flame Martin Weil 2010

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