INTERSECTION in a Sentence

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At the spot where it is intersected by the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard people coming.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERSECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intersection
 n.  point where lines intersect; act of intersecting
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve turns off.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
2  The cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
3  Study and investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of intersection of regular society with society which is accursed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
4  The point of intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
5  This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
6  Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection of streets.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
7  They had reached that irrevocable and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and all joy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
9  Two other men descended after Danglars forming the rearguard, and pushing Danglars whenever he happened to stop, they came by a gentle declivity to the intersection of two corridors.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
10  At length they came to a beautiful meadow intersected with purling rills.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
11  At length, at a spot where three paths intersected each other, he stopped.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of Groenendael and Boitsfort.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
13  At the spot where it is intersected by the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard people coming.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
14  Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the low roofs of the Rue Polonceau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
15  As far as the eye can reach stretches the great flat plain-land, all dusted over with patches of alkali, and intersected by clumps of the dwarfish chaparral bushes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Example Sentence:
1  The street will be widened as part of the construction of the new Golden Ears Route and 176 Street intersection.
2  The driver had to jam the brake pedal to the floor to avoid entering the intersection.
3  Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.
4  Take a left turn at the intersection.
5  The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
6  At the 6th traffic light, Rose Street will intersect Limestone Street.
7  The roads intersect near the bridge.