How to Use cross-legged in a Sentence

cross-legged

adverb or adjective

• Scribes sat in cross-legged or kneeling positions for long periods of time, hunched over paper and ink, the researchers write.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
• Blair needs help getting on the floor to sit cross-legged to play.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
• Lisa sat cross-legged on the narrow tile floor between the stacks, the big P volume spread open in her lap.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
• Is her mother close to her, across the room washing her face, or cross-legged on the toilet seat?
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2024
• Shirlee sat cross-legged in the middle of her bedroom floor, between the bunk beds, rolling them something to smoke.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The other dancers, aged 11 to 16, sit cross-legged on the linoleum floor talking about social media.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 5 June 2024
• That’s the way the ground lay that June 1955 morning in Glen Burnie, when the girl sat cross-legged on her bed, the letter from her old teacher clutched in her fist.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
• The two then sat on a couch, where Barrymore sat close to Shields, cross-legged, and discussed their childhoods.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Then, from the same cross-legged position, rise up without placing your hands or knees on the floor.
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• McIntyre even sat down, cross-legged, to cut portions of his promo.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Arnold held her daughter June, 7 months, in one arm and daughter Sage, 3, in the other, sitting cross-legged on a rug.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• Valentina Loca and her archnemesis Leslie Michelle sit cross-legged on the ground, side by side.
  — Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• In one snap, a smiling McCarthy sat cross-legged, surrounded by what appeared to be cast mates and crew for the movie.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
• Linda, who was seventy-five years old, and white, was sitting cross-legged on a cot.
  — Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The cockpit has plenty of room for sitting cross-legged or stretching out your stems, and gear doesn’t have to get left behind.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• The women now sit together cross-legged inside the center and weave with dyed bunches of fiber at their sides.
  — Megha Kapoor, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• The carport is where Marzan sits cross-legged for hours looping coconut coir, making nets and twining.
  — Sarah Sekula, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• As the sun begins to set over the Himalayan peaks in the distance, Avinash Yadav sits cross-legged in a makeshift outdoor kitchen, crushing stark green leaves in his palm.
  — Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar, Saveur, 18 Apr. 2024
• At the end of a recent tour, Rabbi Yoshi Zimmerman tries to achieve a breakthrough with high school students who sit cross-legged and stone-faced on the floor.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• My daughter, sitting cross-legged in the passenger seat of our idling van, cocked an ear in my direction.
  — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
• Sitting cross-legged on benches, the nuns scrolled through the prayer text on their iPads, introduced to minimize use of paper.
  — Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Back at his shop, the diamond broker sits cross-legged with a velvet jewelry tray perched on his lap.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Here’s how long ago that was: Toronto’s goalie was a portly gent by the name of Turk Broda, who was once photographed sitting cross-legged on the ice with a plate of pancakes in his lap.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• In an adjoining, windowless room, two men in fuzzy caps sat cross-legged, threading meat and fat on skewers.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Back in the cemetery, Brittany sat cross-legged, her index finger over her daughter’s grave marker.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
• In stairwells, people sat cross-legged on the floor as many anxiously typed on their cellphones, trying to get hold of friends and relatives.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• The ladies are seated cross-legged or reclining on a woven polymat with red flowers on a pale yellow backdrop in the main room, or gallery, of the art center.
  — Megha Kapoor, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• The 26-inch-wide diameter is perfect for one child to sit cross-legged while careening downhill.
  — Heather Balogh Rochfort, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
• But the room’s most colorful occupant is a life-size statue of Ronald McDonald that sits cross-legged on a sectional sofa.
  — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024