crosshatch
verb (used with object)
to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
crosshatching
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a word derived from
crosshatch.
Example Sentences
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For Bibbs, art — in a crosshatching style, in his case — is all about communicating universal ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
He uses it to add orange details to the edge of the leaf, shading them, crosshatching.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
The area beneath the mezzanine will show Hill’s paintings that mix coaster imagery — the crosshatching of their frames, the line of their crest — with flowers and foliage, in a kind of pink-hued pastoral.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
After an hour of crosshatching the Tucker Fire’s plume, the sun dipped behind the Pacific Ocean.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2022
The rest of the cliff looked impossible to descend—nothing more than a crosshatching of tiny ledges—but they kept climbing down.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
