Example Sentences

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After an hour of crosshatching the Tucker Fire’s plume, the sun dipped behind the Pacific Ocean.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2022

Among the dazzlers are fine linen panels by Susan Marawarr with copper-metallic striations printed over deep-black crosshatching.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

But in a spontaneous studio demonstration of his idiosyncratic use of tobacconists’ pipe cleaners, from which he coaxes lines that uncannily mimic etched crosshatching, he displayed a quite magical deftness.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2016

If the new campus activism has a central paradigm, it is intersectionality: a theory, originating in black feminism, that sees identity-based oppression operating in crosshatching ways.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

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