She swam across the lake.

Meaning: The sentence describes someone moving across a lake by swimming.

Choice of Words: Swam is the past tense of swim, which means to move through water using your arms and legs. Across means to go to the other side of something. Lake is a large body of water surrounded by land. When you put them together, the sentence means she moved through the water using her arms and legs to go to the other side of the lake.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• She swam across the lake with ease.
• A family of ducks swam gracefully across the lake.
• Ducks swam gracefully across the lake.
• Swam across the lake.
• She swam in the cool water of the lake.
• She swam in the cool lake.
• They swam in the cool, clear, blue lake.
• Fish swam swiftly in clear lake.
• Fish swam deep in lake.
• We swam in the lake's cool, clear water.