across the way

idiom

: across from someone on the other side of the street

They live across the way (from us).

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On a scorching Saturday afternoon in June, a handful of people slipped into a nondescript downtown L.A. studio with tinted windows, just across the way from Walt Disney Concert Hall. —

Michelle Lhooq, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024 Well, the soldier at the far left is the one who’s chugging from a wineskin, not the angel across the way. —

Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 But Drew takes the guy out from across the way, with a 40-yard pistol shot. —

Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024 As Locarno’s 8,000-strong Piazza Grande audience welcomed Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan on stage Saturday evening, a much smaller crowd congregated across the way for an alternative film event. —

Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for across the way

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