Across has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The size of a galaxy may be as little as a thousand light-years across or as much as a million light-years across. | |
| 2. | There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural;) but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. | |
| 3. | Waves transmit energy, not water, across the ocean and if not obstructed by anything, they have the potential to travel across an entire ocean basin. | |
| 4. | Hubble's top accomplishments include measuring the expansion and acceleration rate of the universe; finding that black holes are common among galaxies; characterizing the atmospheres of planets around other stars; monitoring weather changes on planets across our solar system; and looking back in time across 97% of the universe to chronicle the birth and evolution of stars and galaxies. | |
| 5. | Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends. | |
| 6. | Can you swim across the river? | |
| 7. | I ran across an old friend near the bank. | |
| 8. | A banking scandal is sweeping across Capitol Hill. | |
| 9. | A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill. | |
| 10. | The bridge is safe; you can drive across. |