How to Use cross section in a Sentence

cross section

noun
  • The class surveyed a cross section of the student body.
  • The drawing showed the human brain in cross section.
  • The people in our neighborhood are a representative cross section of American society.
  • The fresh cut for the cross section even smelled of pine.
    — al, 12 May 2022
  • What really makes it for me is the cross section of the songs that are on this live record.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 23 June 2023
  • The cross section of the demographic that this show plays to just blew my mind.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • So now, instead of thinking of the Greek letter omega, imagine the cross section of a wave in the ocean.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2019
  • The program serves a diverse cross section of the country.
    — Renuka Rayasam, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The right shows a cross section of a mooncake, with a red bean filling and a salted egg yolk in the center.
    — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The events, drawing from a cross section of movie and music fans, often sell out.
    — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The thing that gives me hope is that there is a broad cross section of our society saying it’s wrong.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
  • You’re constantly forced to engage with the cross section of the country.
    — Kate Gonzales, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • End-grain boards are formed by using pieces of wood cut parallel to the ground, like a cross section.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The radar cross section of the Earth's surface can be large, on the order of a million times as great as the cross section of targets.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2021
  • The list of covers reads like a cross section of their influences and heroes.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Reducing the cross section of the trailer is the most effective way to reduce the drag and increase the range.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Head Start tends to be popular with a wide cross section of voters.
    — Louis Jacobson and Mia Penner, Austin American-Statesman, 26 July 2024
  • The group’s one-hour set, McDougall said, will include a cross section of key songs from Tonight Alive’s four albums.
    — Alan Sculley, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Only three patrons can come in at a time, but a cross section of the diverse city parades through each day.
    — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The committee is made up of a wide cross section of campus constituents.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The fractal is cube-like, yet its cross section is quite surprising.
    — George Hart, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2013
  • Of course, stealth at sea requires much more than just reducing a ship's radar cross section.
    — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • These groups were composed of a cross section of America.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • Seismic cross section through the upper part of the North Atlantic crust at Eriador Ridge – a bulge of thickened crust.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2023
  • In contrast, the cross section of the neuroma looked disorganized, a smear of dots and swirls.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • So this is a cross section of thermal and power and electronics, and all of the modeling there is.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
  • We’re right now at a cross section of old and new where the old guard, who is used to doing things a certain way, is slowly being phased out.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2019
  • In a cross section, the ridged area may be triangular, star-shaped or spiral.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Sitting at the cross section of these industries, Fair Harbor has the market on its side.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • The task before the Islamic Republic is to win over a broad cross section of its citizens while simultaneously defining what shape its revolutionary project, and its state apparatus, will take over the long term.
    — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2019

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