How to Use across the way in a Sentence

across the way

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  • Head to the Pearl Cafe…or the Starbucks across the way.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The president strode from the White House to the church across the way, Bible in hand.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2020
  • And across the way, box upon box of T-shirts and protest signs.
    — Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • The lady across the way overheard her, and said, Maine?
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • The figure could be seen dragging a foot across the way to obscure the tracks of the cart.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, just across the way, the invasive plant is thinned to wisps.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Schwartzkopf told Miller that thieves had been stealing goods from a warehouse across the way.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • All this to get to a second building, across the way, where ice was available.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
  • The concierge shuffles you from the salon across the way to your private TSA screening.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • The concierge shuffles you from the salon across the way to your private TSA screening.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • Our attention is caught by a building in a park across the way.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But as the fire started making its way down Mias Canyon, the man feared for his neighbors' ranch across the way.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • In response, Girardi left his dugout and stomped onto the field, yelling across the way.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 June 2021
  • For a chill breakfast or fresh pastry, try Whale City Bakery across the way.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The seller in the stall across the way mentioned that Garoppolo injured his foot and the backup was sent in.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Jimmy Ulmer … was staying in an apartment right across the way from the Slatens?
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • In a park across the way, Irina Kostiuk, 38, stood staring at the scene, clutching her bleeding hand.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The purple and pink Cheshire cat smiles from above, while the little caterpillar smokes on a mushroom across the way.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2022
  • Akin said her neighbor across the way has mental health issues and came close to falling victim to the heat.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • At one point, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin looked over at me from across the way and smiled.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 10 July 2022
  • As fire trucks raced to the scene of the emergency, Ross, who lives across the way from Hill, hopped on social media to give his followers all the tea.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The bathroom, meanwhile, has a sink and toilet, as well as a dedicated shower with a seat across the way.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023
  • One night, late, a horrified Anna spies her friend bloody and expiring through the window across the way.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Terry is not the only neighbor Angela observes across the way.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Oregon State whipped Idaho 42-0 across the way at Reser Stadium.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Far East Plaza, Jack Benchakul’s storefront across the way could sometimes fade into the surroundings.
    — Patricia Escárcega, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The house, two towns up the road from Holyoke, is a compact four-bedroom home of gray clapboard, with a chain-link fence bordering one side of a little yard and some low-end rental units across the way.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Just across the way is General Duffy’s Watering Hole, a collection of the best food trucks to satisfy any appetite.
    — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne also have their own booths across the way in the same steak house with impeccable service that’s been running for over 60 years.
    — Thuc Doan Nguyen, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2021
  • His manager at the time: Terry Francona, who’s across the way this series helming the visiting Cleveland Guardians.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2023

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