How to Use across from in a Sentence

across from

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  • One of my best performers sat across from me, hands shaking, barely able to speak.
    — Anna Jankowska, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This seafront hotel has a top-notch location across from Lokrum Island and just steps from the famous Old Town fortress.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The new cafe is located on El Camino Real, across from the Domain Hotel.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • The dining car attendant seated me across from a friendly older man who introduced himself as Scott Frisch.
    — Jordan Salama, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • Most of the statue was melted down and reformed into musket balls, and several of these are on display in the opening section of the show across from four large intact pieces of the original.
    — Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Silvano Ippolito, who lives across from the building where the explosion happened, described hearing it and seeing a boy on the ground being attended to by other people.
    — Philippe Magoni, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Niagara Parks has transformed Queen Victoria Park, a greenspace across from Niagara Falls, into a fan zone to watch the games.
    — Shelby Blackley, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Assuming that Jarell Quansah and Reece James are not ready after injuries, maybe the safest option is to move Ezri Konsa across from central defence.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • An unidentified woman wearing sunglasses and a face covering made her way down 7th Avenue behind the media pen across from Madison Square Garden.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • What to know about Rally House The Rally House store will open near entry 5 across from Crocs store at Concord Mills, according to the mall’s website.
    — Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • El Paso sits in a verdant opening between arid mountains at the westernmost tip of Texas, at a place where the Rio Grande often runs shallow enough to wade across from Ciudad Juárez, its twin city in Mexico.
    — Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • Originally part of an expansive green space, the Signers’ Monument today is wedged into the median of Greene Street across from Augusta’s municipal government building.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 June 2026
  • Located in the city’s central business district across from Mellon Square Park, this Beaux-Arts belle is a quick ride from the Phipps Conservatory and the Botanical Gardens, and just across the Allegheny from the Andy Warhol Museum.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • On Friday, Pope Leo formally accepted the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center, a non-partisan non-profit located across from Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
    — Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

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