crosshatch
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Origin of crosshatch
Vocabulary lists containing crosshatch
Visual Arts - High School
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Visual Arts - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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With a knife, score a crosshatch pattern into the surface fat on top of the roast.
From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2023
When exploring the crosshatch of Seattle streets and architecture with this column’s founder, Paul Dorpat, two decades ago, I realized that his X-ray photographic vision of our ephemeral city included similar traces.
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022
Ms. Daguin advises scoring the skin in a tight, crosshatch pattern so you get ¼-inch squares.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021
Lana’s storytelling can be confusing, with its crosshatch of conflicting and recanted accounts, family memories, and her own familial woes, which include the death of her daughter, Evan, in 2017.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021
Then, without hesitation, he set the Squirrel down once more on the Kool-Aid crosshatch, and Breashears and Athans husded Beck aboard.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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