Example Sentences

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Garza’s own family is one that has been crossing back and forth across the border for generations, following opportunities for work and holding onto the hope of better living conditions for their children.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

It has been crossing the English channel for just under a week, carrying freight-only traffic.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

The highly infectious disease has been crossing the globe, recently finding a susceptible population in Samoa, where the official death toll was 53 on Monday.

From Reuters • Dec. 4, 2019

Since his first coaching job as an assistant coach at Division III Rochester in 1984, Wright has been crossing paths with Beilein, who at the time was at LeMoyne College, also in New York.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2018

“He’d give her the goods on me any day. ‘Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling