Example Sentences

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They will have crossed other EU countries to get here.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2021

On their way north, the migrants will have crossed the Tibesti, and some may have settled there, so we expect to find abundant traces of early prehistoric human culture and mobility.

From Nature • Feb. 15, 2015

By 2020, all but six states will have crossed that threshold, and in all but two, support will exceed 48 percent.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2013

If he can write something more useful than his name into the synthetic DNA of an organism, changing its genetic function in some deliberate way, he will have crossed the threshold to designer life.

From New York Times • May 30, 2012

Besides, the Oosterpark doesn't come until after we will have crossed two canals.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse