If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Wagon trains -- groups of wagons -- rode in four lines across the land when they passed through dangerous country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

"We found that, in our university language centers across the UK and indeed across Europe, that language learning is up.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

A major reason is that the dunes bury any plants in their way as they move across the desert.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The administration says a new private space industry could create ten thousand new jobs across the country in five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The next day, the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper printed four words in French across the front of the paper.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Everything else is across the ground. In basketball you go up a little bit, but not anywhere near as cool.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Mister Berry says at least one hundred ten community colleges across the nation took part in the poetry competition.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Across this strange land, no man in the early days of the West knew just where death was waiting for him.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

He had observed that students at colleges across the country had been organizing "teach-in" demonstrations to protest the war in Vietnam.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

You can tell all kinds of stories in a song, and put your ideas across to another person."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

There are more than four thousand seismic intensity meters in place across the country to measure earthquakes.

VOA: special.2011.06.07