crosswise; criss-cross
Rivers criss-cross the landscape.
They criss-crossed the country by bus.
a criss-cross pattern, design, etc
New roads, railways and pipelines are criss-crossing continental Asia.
MRI and MSCT in the diagnosis of criss-cross heart
electricity cables erected criss-cross over the countryside
Railway lines criss-cross in a dense network.
Every night of missing, used to weave the network of missing with words, criss-crossing, criss-crossing.
Wires criss-cross between the tops of the poles, forming a grid.
Art and ideas as well as merchandise travelled the trade routes that criss-crossed Europe.
County county, township and village roads extending in all directions, criss - crossing.
Most of the wounded were slashed in the head, their shaven scalps now criss-crossed with long scars and stitches.
Big trees criss-crossed, brown-red trunks curved and interlaced, forming a three-dimensional fence, supporting the huge crown.
The past, present and future criss-cross in last night's sleeping dream, with loneliness, sweetness, happiness and expectation.
The stone array criss-crossed, big as Gushan, small as Shihu, everywhere is littered with beautiful, thorny vicissitudes of life.
It is not just ears that are affected by the brain's criss-cross method of controlling the body.
Civilians are fleeing along many criss-crossing trajectories, and soldiers are struggling to get to the north past roads that can't be travelled on.
The criss-cross Banks were what was left of the walls of huge buildings which might once have been giants' palaces and temples.
Martine Aubry, the party's boss, has criss-crossed France on the campaign trail, but it is local candidates who seem to count more.
Snow-capped mountains loom in the distance while smaller hills tumble down towards the town, criss-crossed by paths and nibbled away by quarries at their bases.
You see, the laurel tree trunks smooth impression that incredible, laurel branches criss-cross, the thick branches and leaves woven into a green predominant for us to block the sun.
He was 29-years-old and had learnt his English while working for three years alongside a Baptist missionary from Virginia, criss-crossing Romania in a travelling road show.
With the Indian airlines starting to criss-cross the world - private domestic player Kingfisher is slated to go international this year - I hope international travel reverts to its old glamour.
What begins like a narrow mountain stream gradually opens up into a wide seagoing estuary, criss-crossed by multiple tributaries, and then bursts into an out-of-control, surging flood tide.
Operating under the United States Patriot Act, as well as on the basis of a presidential directive adopted in2005 to target the funds of proliferators, officials from America's Treasury Department have been criss-crossing the globe to persuade governments and banks to curb their business with Iran.
