7 sentences with 'cross'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cross and other words derived from it.
• « I had struggled with that thought many times myself, but I supposed Sarah was too little to let it cross her mind. »
• « With a few violent exceptions, no major incursions were able to cross the Sinai, and consequently contact with Mesopotamian and Near Eastern cultures was limited. »
• « In 49 BC, he dared to cross the Rubicon River into northern Italy, the legal frontier across which no Roman general was allowed to take his troops; he reportedly announced that "the die was cast" and that he and his men were now committed to take power or face total defeat. »
• « In the process, the Persians even seized the "True Cross", the cross on which (so the Christians of the time believed) Christ himself had been crucified, from its resting place in Jerusalem. »
• « In the same year that Heraclius returned the true cross to Jerusalem, the Islamic prophet Muhammad returned to his hometown of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula with the first army of Muslims. »
• « Camels enabled Arab armies to cross deserts and launch sudden attacks on their enemies, often catching them by surprise. »