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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cross-hatch.

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Examples

  • You, the aftereffect of endless appointments and near-daily blood sticks, the needles 'cross-hatches marking me a junkie of sorts; the disappointment of every failed implant only fueled my appetite for the next humiliating procedure under the tented sheet, legs parted wider than the jaws of life.

    Bookends of a Life: I 2010

  • Hugely popular entertainment website Ain’t It Cool News gives Spiralmind a big thumbs-up, saying “Not in a style you see often in this post-Image era of cross-hatches and sketches, and that’s what made reading this first issue so refreshing.

    New Hero Discovered in Spiralmind | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • One scrap of gridironed roof sticking out from the powdered ground cross-hatches the horizon.

    Letters from France 1923

  • And before I could grasp what he was going to do, I heard a curious ripping sound, which told me that he had passed the blade of his long Spanish spring-knife through between two of the cross-hatches, and was cutting through it.

    Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Sarkin's art often features words and cross-hatches and images overlapping each other.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The evidence appears in neat, straight lines etched along a forearm, cross-hatches carved on an inner thigh, or cigarette burns around an ankle.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • The evidence appears in neat, straight lines etched along a forearm, cross-hatches carved on an inner thigh, or cigarette burns around an ankle.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • The evidence appears in neat, straight lines etched along a forearm, cross-hatches carved on an inner thigh, or cigarette burns around an ankle.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • The fragments are etched with several kinds of motifs, including parallel lines with cross-hatches and repetitive non-parallel lines, the team reports online today in the

    News Michael Balter 2010

  • You don't ask her about cleaning her room and expect her to carve cross-hatches all over her arms.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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