How to Use cross section in a Sentence

cross section

noun

• The class surveyed a cross section of the student body.
• The drawing showed the human brain in cross section.
• The people in our neighborhood are a representative cross section of American society.
• The fresh cut for the cross section even smelled of pine.
  — al, 12 May 2022
• What really makes it for me is the cross section of the songs that are on this live record.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 23 June 2023
• The cross section of the demographic that this show plays to just blew my mind.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• So now, instead of thinking of the Greek letter omega, imagine the cross section of a wave in the ocean.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2019
• The right shows a cross section of a mooncake, with a red bean filling and a salted egg yolk in the center.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The events, drawing from a cross section of movie and music fans, often sell out.
  — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• The thing that gives me hope is that there is a broad cross section of our society saying it’s wrong.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
• You’re constantly forced to engage with the cross section of the country.
  — Kate Gonzales, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• End-grain boards are formed by using pieces of wood cut parallel to the ground, like a cross section.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
• The list of covers reads like a cross section of their influences and heroes.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• The group’s one-hour set, McDougall said, will include a cross section of key songs from Tonight Alive’s four albums.
  — Alan Sculley, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2018
• Only three patrons can come in at a time, but a cross section of the diverse city parades through each day.
  — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
• The committee is made up of a wide cross section of campus constituents.
  — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The fractal is cube-like, yet its cross section is quite surprising.
  — George Hart, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2013
• Of course, stealth at sea requires much more than just reducing a ship's radar cross section.
  — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
• These groups were composed of a cross section of America.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
• Seismic cross section through the upper part of the North Atlantic crust at Eriador Ridge – a bulge of thickened crust.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2023
• In contrast, the cross section of the neuroma looked disorganized, a smear of dots and swirls.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• So this is a cross section of thermal and power and electronics, and all of the modeling there is.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
• We’re right now at a cross section of old and new where the old guard, who is used to doing things a certain way, is slowly being phased out.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2019
• In a cross section, the ridged area may be triangular, star-shaped or spiral.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Sitting at the cross section of these industries, Fair Harbor has the market on its side.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• The committee is made up of a cross section of residents from all four village wards.
  — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
• Curled up against itself, and seen in cross section, the worm is barely recognizable as a worm.
  — Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• The cross section between finance and culture has been clear to me throughout my career.
  — Robynne Sisco, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2021
• This cross section of a mouse spinal cord, from 1899, shows radial glia cells, the Rodney Dangerfields of brain cells.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 May 2018
• Or buy a Star Wars novel or one of the many non-fiction takes on the canon, from visual cross sections, to film stills to philosophy.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 4 May 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024