1.   The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.

2.   Crossing the channel, the Mexican water taxi appeared to bear down upon us.

3.   Ederle not only succeeded in crossing the channel, she negotiated the choppy waters more than two hours faster than any male swimmer had done.

4.   In pre-Chunnel days, however, crossing the channel by ferry in bad weather could be so exciting that passengers were commonly terrified.

5.   One is to stow aboard one of the ferries that cross the channel from the port at Calais.

6.   Reiner, whose great-grandfather settled the homestead, recalled crossing the channel recently, when the sun hit the water just right.

7.   The sound of my car clanking aboard the ferry that crosses the channel from Aransas Pass to Port Aransas.

8.   They had successfully crossed the channel for the first time.

9.   Thousands of vessels crossed the channel in the initial stages of the invasion, and many never made it back.

10.   Until now, refugees crossing the channel have willingly turned themselves over to begin the process of becoming British citizens.