cross wires
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To interact in a way that causes confusion or interference.
Example Sentences
- "After Diodorus, Josephus († ca. A.D. 95) is our chief source of information about the Nabataeans, but Josephus was interested in them only as they crossed wires with the Hebrews."
- "While AFSA demands justice, we cannot tolerate or sit quietly back and watch colleagues being targeted, secretly investigated, discredited and financially abused because they crossed wires with IG staff."
- "For many poets such a compulsion might remain unfocused, a theme that inadvertently crosses wires and brings forth occasional sparks."
- "Bea's sparky and tough, but crosses wires."
- "The natural sturdy democracy of childhood brings the four together as friends, and though each pair of cousins was naturally destined to complete each other's lives, Nature crosses wires for a while and tangles the four young hearts in a web of conflicting emotions."
- "Your sentiment crosses wires with your common sense, and you pay the penalty when the power goes off and your lights go out"