How do you use the word "cross" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "cross": As you have insulted him, he is cross with you. No cross, no crown.

Cross Meaning

/kɹɒs/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

nounAny geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Sentence Examples

As you have insulted him, he is cross with you.

No cross, no crown.

I've put a cross on the map to show where the hotel is.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

mark cover track

Antonyms:

lengthwise

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please sign your name on the line marked with an X and do not ____ it out.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

As you have insulted him, he is ____ with you.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see English rood. Doublet of crouch (“cross”) and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois. The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century. Cognates *Icelandic kross (“cross”) *Faroese krossur (“cross”) *Norwegian Nynorsk kross, kors (“cross”) *Danish kors (“cross”) *Swedish kors (“cross”) *North Frisian kross, korss (“cross”) *Saterland Frisian Krjuus, Kjus (“cross”) *West Frisian krús (“cross”) *Dutch kruis (“cross”) *German Low German Krüüz (“cross”) *German Kreuz (“cross”)

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage." — 1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 31:

"Heaven prepares good men with crosses." — 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:

"It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know" — 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:

"The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch." — 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471:

"Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler" — 1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes:

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